This is an analysis of the poem Worshipping The Obtaining Of Money that begins with:

Professing to have integrity today,
Is as old as the discovering of a fossil....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdedfXebcXXaXdffcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001010001 0111001000010 101000111 100101001000 101000010010 0100010 101110011 10001 10010101000 01010011 111001010010 0101110111 00100011011 101 010110110010010 10101101001 01000111010101 1010010 010111101011 011001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 808
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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.

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