This is an analysis of the poem Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty that begins with:
One way to be very happy is to be very rich
For then you can buy orchids by the quire and bacon by the flitch....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXbcccXddeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010000101 1111110101110101 111011101101101001 0101010 1110110111101010 10110 10111111011011001 01 110100110111 011111101101100110 1 101001011010111001 11101011 11111001001111 101 011111101010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; very, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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