This is an analysis of the poem Thankful For A Fixed Income I Magically Manage that begins with:
I did not grow up picking Lillies from the field.
I was a latchkey child with chores and responsibilities....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc XdXXe afdd bXgX dbdXf ffbfde gcfacfXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,5,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111010001 110111011010100 1011101110111 0010101011010101 11010100011010 11001001100110 110 11101111 1010110 11101110001001 111101000100 111000010001010101 11110001001 101101 11111011 11111100111 1110101 0101010 0110110 1111001 111101100 110101 1 110101111 111011010 010001011 10011110100010 111 0100111 1110001001010 11111011 0110 110101111100010 101100110101 1 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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