This is an analysis of the poem Something To Do Was Payment Enough that begins with:
You say you work to have 'stuff' and things.
Things for you that make your life more meaningful....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXd d XX ef ebXcafXe X gaXeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,2,2,8,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111 11111111100 1101101 10101110 111110100 01011011110100101 110101001010 11 111 111011 10100111101011 111 1111001 11101010 10100010110010 100100101001010 11110111 1011100111 111001101 1101100101 1 011 10100111001 111001 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; you is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase things connects the lines.
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- summary of Something To Do Was Payment Enough;
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