This is an analysis of the poem The Man Whose Riches Satisfy His Greed that begins with:

The man whose riches satisfy his greed
Is not more rich for all those heaps and hoards ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cc ddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 0111111111 1111110101 1101011101 1111111111 0101010111 1101111011 1111010101 1101011111 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • 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; men is repeated.

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