This is an analysis of the poem Profit Watchers that begins with:

Profit watchers.
And thug betting racketeers, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXba XXXbcdee FXFbFdFceb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010 1110101 10010011 001000111 100110101 000100101 1101100 110110 01001001000 01010110101 11001001101 11110011100 1110010 00101010101100 00100010 101011111 00100010 100100101100 00100010 1110010101 00100010 10101011111 0100100111 0111001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, to are repeated.

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