This is an analysis of the poem If It Was About A Lot Of Money that begins with:
If it was about a lot of money...
My mind would be, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDX AEFBX AAAG AAAc ABCDX AEFBX AAAG BAbABAbAXAAAbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,4,5,5,4,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101010 1110 10101 011101000 1010101100 10010101010 101 100111 1100010001001 10100010101 0010101010 0010101010 0010101010 1100010101001 10010101010 0010101010 10010101010 1110111111 0010101010 1110 10101 011101000 1010101100 0010101010 101 100111 1100010001001 101000101 0010101010 0010101010 0010101010 1100010101001 111101101 0010101010 1111011101 0010101010 111101101 0010101010 111101110101 0010101010 0010101010 0010101010 10010101010 11000101111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, about, if, it, lot, of, money are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, if are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines money is repeated).
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