This is an analysis of the poem Five-Per-Cent that begins with:
Because I have ten thousand pounds I sit upon my stern,
And leave my living tranquilly for other folks to earn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff aabbggffbbhh aaeXffggaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01111101110111 11110100110101 1011001100101 110101111101001 11110101010101 11010100010011 11010011010101 1100101010001 11010001010101 01101101111111 11110110110001 01000101010111 11110111010111 11110110010101 11110101111101 11111101110101 11000110010101 010010101010101 10110101011001 01000100010100 01010101010001 01110101110101 11011101010011 11111111110111 11110111110101 11010101111101 11110111110111 11010101110100 11110101011101 11110100011111 10111111111101 10111111110101 11110111111101 11001101110111 11011101111101 11010111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 680
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, and, your, you, me, who, to, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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