This is an analysis of the poem The Cry Of Mammon that begins with:
The dazzling earth is rich with easy thrones.
The corn is golden in the golden sun....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXbabccbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010010101010 0101000101 0101010101 1101010001 0101111110 0100010101 01000101001 0101010101 0101000101 1111110101 1111011101 1101011111 01010101001 11010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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