This is an analysis of the poem The Downfall Of Mammon; Or, The Poet's Dream that begins with:

THE baleful era of King Gold has vanished,
And men disgusted with the part they played,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dbdb XeXe fefe fafa cgcg dbdb bbXb hbhb dada ebeb caca bibi beXe ebeb bbbbb bdbdXabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010011110 1101000111 01010011110 0101010111 11110101010 1101001101 11110111110 0001010101 01011101010 01011010101 11000101010 11010101111 01011101100 0101110101 11010101100 11010100101 010101011100 01010110001 110101010100 1101010101 101101011100 0111000111 01101001010100 1111011001 11010111010 1111000101 11010111010 1101010101 11000101010 1100011111 10010101110 1101010101 11010101110 1100100101 11111101000 0101110101 11010001010 1101111101 11011111010 0111000101 11010111010 1111010101 01010101110 0101110101 01010111110 01001011101 11001001110 1111110101 01110111010 0101010101 11111101010 110011101001 10110101010 1101010111 11010111010 1111010101 10011001010 1111011101 11010001010 1101010101 10010101010 0001010101 11000011110 1001000101 111111111 10 1111010101 11110101010 1101011101 01010101010 11011010101 10011111010 110010101 01010011010 0101010111 01010001110 101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • 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; no, in, and, circles, not, united are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words instead, no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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