This is an analysis of the poem Riches that begins with:
Friend, you have wealth and power,
Men go and come at your call,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdc efef dgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 1111111 11010010 1111001 1110010 100101 1011011 100101 1111111 1001011 1011101 1111101 111010001 11001111 1001001 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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