This is an analysis of the poem Poetic Aphorisms. (From The Sinngedichte Of Friedrich Von Logau) that begins with:
MONEY
Whereunto is money good? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcc ddd eeeff Xdd Xgaaag dgg hbb fXX hbb eii XjjXdddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,5,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10 1000100 11011100 110111011 11110101 01100 11100101 10110101 1 110001001 11000101 11001101 11001101 100110 0110011110110 10101111010111 101 11111 011100 011100 0110100 11111 1 1001010001111101 1011101011010010 0101 01110101110101 01110101110101 101 1011101011110010 1010101011011101 111 01001100111101 1000101010111 1010 101011101110101 101011100100111 1 111011101010110 11111111011100010 1 001110111110101 111001001010101 111111101010111 1001101011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; has, sin, like, it, to, man, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, to, though are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sin is repeated).
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