This is an analysis of the poem Excessively Broke that begins with:

Wealth of abundance.
Wealth of friends who have abundance....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010 10111010 101110101100 010100001111010 11101000 100110101001 011110100100 11110100100 10010101001 101010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 426
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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; wealth, of, abundance, who, have, those are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wealth is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines abundance, intelligence are repeated).

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  • summary of Excessively Broke;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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