This is an analysis of The Sinking Fund Cried by Thomas Moore.
["Now what, we ask, is become of this Sinking Fund - these eight millions of surplus above expenditure, which were to reduce the interest of the national debt by the amount of four hundred thousand pounds annually? Where, indeed, is the Sinking Fund itself?" - The Times]
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabccb DdeXFE ffXeeX ddgaag hhaXXa iicddX DdeXFE
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 101110010010111100100101001000101000010011001011010110001010010110001 111111 01011 00110111111 11110 111010 0100100101 1111 110001 1011010010010 01111 11001 111111001110 1111 11001 11001101100 110110 100110 11010111100 11101 0010101 110100101 011001 00101 110111101 1111 001001 110001110010 101110 1101 11010001010 01001 00111 001110100110 10101 00101 11111110100 1111 110101 10101010010010 011111 11001 111111001110
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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