This is an analysis of the poem An Interest Kept To Keep that begins with:

It's not what you've got in your pockets,
You want me to find....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBC Xdde Xbbe XXXe ABBCXabbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110110 11101 1011011 10111101 11011101 1110 001110 011100101 10111010101 01101011111 1111010101011 1100101 111100110 111110100 11101111 01100101 011110110 11101 1011011 10111101 1111001010 1101101 0111101 01100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word keep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of An Interest Kept To Keep;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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