This is an analysis of the poem When The Money Is Right that begins with:
Dollar profits gone.
And the purpose of one's life, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCCDEFG GGDGGHIGEGGGGGG IG ABCCDEFG dggijcjjj GGDGGHIGEGGGGGG IG igg XXGHIGEGGGGGGXGGXGi Xg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,15,2,8,9,15,2,3,19,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 1010011 11001 1101010 1110 00100 110101010 01101 101001 10100010111 11 11 101001 10101 01111101 101001 1111110110 011011111 101001 1110 101011001 101001 10101 110010 011101 10101 1010011 11001 1101010 1110 00100 110101010 01101 110101 1011101 100101101 10110001111 1101100100 100111101 0110001001 101010100 0110001001 101001 10100010111 11 11 101001 10101 01111101 101001 1111110110 011011111 101001 1110 101011001 101001 10101 110010 011101 01001 101001 11 10 10 101001 10101 01111101 101001 1111110110 011011111 101001 1110 101011001 101001 10101 100 101001 10101 100 101001 11101 01010 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; and, to, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, oh are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines oh is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase oh connects the lines.
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