With An Interest To Sniff Your Assets by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem With An Interest To Sniff Your Assets that begins with:

what real difference will it make,
If a thief has hidden a stolen wealth......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb XcdXdeX dXXd ecadcXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100001 0011100101 11111010 1010011011 0001010 111010100111 10101 10101101010100 00100010 1101010100100 0101101001 010100011011010010 01001101110101 10 010 10 10111 10101000100 0110001111 1010111010 1001101 11110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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