This is an analysis of the poem On Vital Statistics that begins with:
Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey (1)
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.' ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa bb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101011 1101011110 1111010011 1101110101 11011001110 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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- idea of the verse;
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