This is an analysis of the poem Envy And Avarice that begins with:

Envy and Avarice, one summer day,
Sauntering abroad...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabX ccdecdeffegdgd hhXddX bbcceeccdhhdaXX iibeejkkjX iggaabll miiamX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,6,15,10,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1011001101 10001 010001 0111111111 1111011101 01011101010 11010101010 11110111010 10010001110 1011010111 1100 0101 1111011101 11011101 11110101 1101 0100010001 11011101010 10110111001 010011010 010101000 01011100110 01010011010 101010110110 11011101001 11110010101 11111101010 11001101110 01010101010 11000101 0101010111 010110010011 110111 11001101010 10010011110 00010101 11111110110 10110 1011110111 1111011101 1101011100 01010011100 0101110001 1001011111 0100010 1011001101 1111110101 1001010111 11010100101 1101011111 1100101 11010111110 11111101 0101010111 1011110101 11010101 00110111 0111000101 110001010 110111010 10110101 11000101 010101 11010101 1001001101 110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, more, as are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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