This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Only Focus On The Money that begins with:
When you go for the money,
You'll be selling your soul....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABacadAd XAdXeXeAdAd ABAd cAdeAdAdeAdAd AdAdAdAdAdAd X AdAdad FAdAdadFAd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,4,13,12,1,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 101011 111111010 0111 11101010 1 110101010 1 10111101 1101010 1 10110111 010110011 0010101 1 1101010 1 111101010 1 1111010 101011 1101010 1 11111111 1101010 1 1 11101010 1 111101010 1 1 11101010 1 111101010 1 110101010 1 111101010 1 1111101010 1 1111101010 1 111101010 1 110101010 1 111011111010 1101010 1 110101010 1 1110101010 1 11110101111111 1101010 1 110101010 1 11101010 1 11110101111111 1101010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; money, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word don't is repeated.
The author used the same word don't at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase don't connects the lines.
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