This is an analysis of the poem 'With No Moolah? ' that begins with:
I think it's time to shop,
For new scents to breathe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCD aXcX EFEG dh ABCD EFEG fdXHX EFEG X dXHXdXHX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,4,4,5,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 11101 11010 0110001 0101 111110 11111101 110 10101 10100001 0111 0100011100 1111101111010111 1111111110101010 110101 11101 11010 0110001 10101 10100001 0111 0100011100 1 111101111010111 11101 1111011101011010 11101 10101 10100001 0111 0100011100 11101 11110111011111 11101 1111011101011010 11101 111101110101111 11101 1111011101011010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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, you, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of 'With No Moolah? ';
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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