This is an analysis of the poem Sententiæ that begins with:
If the father’s bankrupt, and the sons fail,
Blaming it on their own bad start,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baba Xaaaa X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0010101011 10011111 101011101 01011101 10110001 1011101 1110101 011101 11111111 01 1111110101 1101010101 1101011101 101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; deep is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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- summary of Sententiæ;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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