This is an analysis of the poem Poverty that begins with:
O poverty, thou hast made me great.
Thou hast made me honoured like Christ ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcd efgXhibghai eXfjhecklfllmXeajl ghhcX dee XikiihhfhddnoaXah fdhheXfXfgXadlphobXfcXmXhohdadXfeXicnbhbhg gophidhpfddd fjpedaijjh bXXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,18,5,3,17,42,12,10,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011111 111110011 0010111101 1000110111 1100101111 11111001001 111110010 11011010 011010110 110111 11011111101 0010100100 11101111011 101001100 1110010100 110110 111100 110110010 10101010100 11101 11001011 10100110 10111110 101010 0101 101101 1110101 111001110101001 1110001001001 11101011010 00101110 101010 01111010101100 01110101 0110001011 110101010 101001001 11010010 11111001 010011 11111010 1110110 11101011110 100101001100 010101101 110010010 1101010 1101011 101101011000 1010110011 101011010 10101101 100100010 111001 111101 0101000101 0100010 110011 0101010010 110101 1100101 11011 100111111 10010111 10010010 11101001011 10010100001 1001011 110111010 1110100100 11001000101001100 11011010101010100 11110101 1110010010101 11110101 01011110 100100010010110 11001010101 11001010 101111 111010 100001111 0101001010 101001010101 01010101 11101111 01011011101 11001100100010 10100101 10110010 010111 1101001 101100110 10101000 110101 101010 0110001 010101100101 100100010 101001 100100010 01010010 110111100 11110010 11100011 1100101011 111010111 0101011110 1001011 101010 01011100101001 1101 11001100111011011 1100111011 1111101 11111100101 1111001 10010111010 111111 10101 11110101 00100101001 1111011 0101 111001 1101010010 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, hast, me, my, of, no, and, as, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thou is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines earth, child are repeated).
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- summary of Poverty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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