This is an analysis of the poem People Most Unhappy Chase The Money that begins with:
With that mind that you have,
And all the things that you can do......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCDDDd AbCDD Dd DADE DDADE DADE DDADEXDDDDDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,2,4,5,4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 11011111 11101 010 1110101010 1010 11101010 011111 1101001 11101 010 1110101010 1010 1110101010 1010101010 101010101001 111010101010 110000101010110 1010101010 1010 1101010101001 111010101010 110000101010110 1010101010 101010101001 111010101010 110000101010110 1010101010 1010 1101010101001 111010101010 110000101010110 1010101010 1010 1010101010 1010 1010101010 1010 1010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, you, why, money are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, people are repeated.
The author used the same words with, people 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).
The poet repeated the same words money, coming at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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