This is an analysis of the poem Elected To Fix An Economic Crisis that begins with:

What minds are behind,
The spending of billions of dollars......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXc abdcac daXca ddXXbXccacdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 010010010 1110010100 10101 0010011101010 110101 01001010001 101 10100100100101 111010 10101010000101 101010111 1001001001 11010100010 1100 01010111010 1101010011 111101 010101010101 01110 0111111010 10101101 101001110100 010010010010 0100110001001 1111011010001001 0101110100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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.

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  • summary of Elected To Fix An Economic Crisis;
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  • history of its creation;
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