This is an analysis of the poem The Glass Of Beer that begins with:

The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there
Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc bdbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101001001101 10111100100101 101010111101 111101001101 110010010110101 110110111101 1101100011111 1111001101011 0110101110101 1100111101101 11100111101011 0110100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (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; of, and are repeated.

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