This is an analysis of the poem Money, Food, Love that begins with:

He keeps offering me money.
Three thousand, five thousand, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcad eXcfbgXfXgh fiecdiabXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110 110110 1101001 11010110 01010 11110010 1001110 100110 11111 10 1101011 101011 011011 1010101 11010001 010101001 1111101 101001010 01101111 10001011 110111100 10011011 111010100 1111101 01010101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Money, Food, Love;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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