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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdaefgehegeedXijbfgebhgXfdjbgegcjeefeeXffebeihj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010 0101110110 01010010101010 0010010111010 111100110110 010111010010 10011100100101 01001001010110 0101001001100 011101110010 010101010101 1100000011001 10110110010 01110101011 1111101010110 10011001011 101001000111 11110101001001 1101011101 101001011001 00100100101 00101001110100 10111111100 0100011011001 111010100010110 10101001001100 0010101101001 1011101110010 0101000100100101 0100110110010 010010010101010 1100101011010 011010101010 0101101111 011111001010 110101 100010 0100101001101 101100100110 01001101001 11011101110 01000100101 01001001001 0101111111 01010101010101 1101001010010 111110010111 10000101010 001001010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 197
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, is, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines past is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Money;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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