This is an analysis of the poem Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer that begins with:

This is a song to celebrate banks,
Because they are full of money and you go into them and all...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcccacdeaeafXaegbhXfedeXXidiXgXaXbeXhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 000101011 0111101011100011 110111 11001101001101 100100010101 11010101 111010011010010 1010010 1110000111011111 10001011010 101110110100100001 1110 11111001001 010110011100110001 0010110110110010 00101001101 10101101001101011 1101111011100100 10 110111101010111 1011010011111 101101011101011 101010011100 1110010101011 10001100100 11100101111110 101000101110101 01 110101110101001111 1010010011 1101101111010 101010101010010 10111110101 011110110101011 010011011011110 1110111000010 011111101110010 1000111110011 011111011011010 1101010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2061
  • Average number of words per stanza: 370
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, they, them, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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