This is an analysis of the poem Economically Speaking that begins with:
Economically speaking,
It has been the keeping of greed and theft......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCXA AdXddd Xee ddbebXf ABCXAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,3,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010 0100100111 111010010101 0110100100100100 110100100 1010010 1010101001110 1100110 0100111 111101100001 10100111000100 10100101010010 11001 01101 11110 1001110111101 101101 10101 10001 10100100111 0100100010000 1010010 0100100111 111010010101 0110100100100100 110100100 10110000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The author used the same word economically at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Economically Speaking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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