This is an analysis of the poem Once A Precious Egg that begins with:
It matters not,
How much money one's got....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbacXXbdaefcafb gX bXahg fbhXgX gggfXXgeXaX XhdcbXebdggX gXgXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,2,5,6,11,12,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 111011 101100 10001110 1010001001 10101100 01101101 1100 0011001 1100 011010 01110010 11 01011 1100011 110011110 110 111 11110011 101001 11 1110 1111 111011 10001100 110111010 111011 0001 1110001 01000 10011101 101001 10001101 01010 1110111 0100 10101 101011 10100 1111 10111 111101100 1111111 10101010100 1001 10100 11101001 010010 11110101 01101000 1 1011101 11101 110010110 0100110 1011110 0010011101 1011010 10011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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