This is an analysis of the poem The Drunkard's Child that begins with:
He stood beside his dying child,
With a dim and bloodshot eye; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbadad XbebfbbX eacafcXc agegbdgX eaaahehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 0011101 101100101 010111 1100111001 011001 11010101 110111 00111010 110101 10111010 0101001 0101010 110101 1010100101 10101110 11100101 01101 11011101 101111 110111 110101 110111 1101111 1010010101 011111 101110011 111111 11010101 0010101 11110111 10111100 11100101 10011011 01010101 011101 01010101 110101 11010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, me, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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