This is an analysis of the poem Poverty that begins with:
As in the house I sate,
Alone and desolate, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddedeaaX bbffggcXeedddd aabhiibhabejjeXbbjjaaeeddbffh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 011100 110101011 0101011111 1001 100101 1101 11111101 01010101 110101 010111 01110101 01010111 11010101 110101 111110 01010101 1111110101 0111 110101 1011 11011111 10110111 111101 110101 11111101 11010111 11111101 110111 111101 11110111 1101011100 1111 110101 1110 01111100 11110100 110101 110101 01111101 11101101 11110101 011100 110011 1110101 01110111001 0101 0111001 1110 100101110 001011001 010101 110101 11011101 11110101 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, i are repeated.
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