This is an analysis of the poem America's Prosperity that begins with:
They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold
In glittering flood has poured into thy chest;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111101 01001110011 1111011111 0101111101 1101010111 0111110111 1100110101 1101011111 1111010111 1101000101 01101101 0101011101 1111111101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and are repeated.
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