This is an analysis of the poem West By North Again that begins with:
We've drunk our wine, we've kissed our girls, and funds are sinking low,
The horses must be thinking it's a fair thing now to go;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeff ccff gghh ccee iiee jjkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11111111111101 01010100011101 1011100110101 11010001110111 11000111010111 01011101110101 011010101110101 11010101011101 11010101110101 01010111010101 11010111010101 11010111010101 11110101010101 11111101011101 1111010111000101 11010111010111 01010101010101 11010001110101 10011101111101 01011100011111 110111001110111 01110111110101 01011101010101 01011101010001 111110111110111 01010111010101 11010111110101 01010100011101 11111111110101 11111101110101 11011111111101 10111111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, the are repeated.
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