This is an analysis of the poem Counting Dollars Clocked For My Efforts that begins with:
I've heard it said,
But not as often these days....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdeece fgdgcc XXhddadbe Xhd fecghfg bfbXf be bfeXfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,9,3,7,5,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1111011 11101 1101001 1101 101101010 11010110 1111001 00101011 1110111001 11110001011 111001001 011010111 101111 111001000101 101 01101011010 10010100 011011 11 10010001111 110111111 00100111011 110101111010 1 010011011110 0010101 101101001011 110010101 101111011 10101101011 110101 1001100101010101 1001001111 111110100 010100 01111101010 1101011001010 01111011110 111110 110010110100 11001101110 101110111 11101011110 11010110011 1 1111 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, and, i, of are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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