This is an analysis of the poem Fragment: What Men Gain Fairly that begins with:
What men gain fairly -- that they should possess,
And children may inherit idleness,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011101 1101010100 0111000101 10010101000 111111111 110111100 101001010101 0100010111 1001000100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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