This is an analysis of the poem That Paycheck! Just Looks Too Good To Get that begins with:
People who have found their comfort,
With a paid incompetence to maintain......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXaaXX cXabXaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111110 0010100001 01111001001 110001110101 111 111101111 10101010 011010010100 100101010 0110010101 01110 0111001101 101101010 011100100001 1111111001 1001101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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, have are repeated.
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- summary of That Paycheck! Just Looks Too Good To Get;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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