This is an analysis of the poem That's How Confident I Am that begins with:

I am going to create wealth.
He wants to spread the wealth....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXcbc XX XX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,2,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100011 110101 1110010110 1101110 1110010101 1101011 10111 1101010 1111 1111101 10111111001 11010010101 11111011 1111011010 1 1101001110 101001101 1110011 111111010 101011001000 01100001110 110101110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, i, he, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wealth, taxes are repeated).

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  • summary of That's How Confident I Am;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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