This is an analysis of the poem Every Cent Spent that begins with:
Laugh.
I want you to do it, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBC D efe aBC Dd ad Xece ecBfbXXg aBCaXc fBXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,3,3,2,2,4,8,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111010 01111 10001001 1111111001 111111010 110001011 1 111010 01111 10001001 010101001111 1 0101 001011001000 010111 11 01101 11110101 1111 10011 1101 10001 0101010 10101 01101 1 111010 01111 1 11 101010001 111010 10011 11100 0001101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Every Cent Spent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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