This is an analysis of the poem Getting Paid Under The Table that begins with:
Getting praise does not make one pretty.
No matter how great one's talents....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbXaXXcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111110 11011110 101000011 110 101011101 10110010110010 1111101010101110 101000101010011101 00010011 110101010100010 110101 11011110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Getting Paid Under The Table;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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