This is an analysis of the poem A Plain Life that begins with:
No idle gold -- since this fine sun, my friend,
Is no mean miser, but doth freely spend.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc cc dd ee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101111 0111011101 1101111101 01011110011 1101110111 01010111001 1101111111 0101010111 11111111001 0011010101 11011100101 1110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, their are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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