Analysis of Money's Diamond

Adam Roachford 2002 (Bridgetown)



Money
Pure, Monetary
Buying, Selling, Seeing
Market, Ring…Other, Equal
Subtracting, Removing, Being
Worthless, Thoughtless
Nothing


Scheme AABCBDB
Poetic Form
Metre 10 1100 101010 1011010 01001010 1010 10
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 136
Words 18
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

This poem seeks to encapsulate the essence of money.

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Written on November 29, 2022

Submitted by author177 on November 29, 2022

Modified on April 27, 2023

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