This is an analysis of the poem Two Quits And A Drum, And Elegy For Drinkers that begins with:
1. ON ASPHALT: NO GREENS
Quarry out the stone ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdbaedbfghiejedjdkbdibbdlaagedfma b nbbbojdjflelbmambgbfmddjlpddqgfogifnojbdggcbeeebb e iaXbmahbggdelrfdlaehglfa a gXkqdgXapmh XjgXblob ekrcaaBljlddfamajjabXjekoaokejBeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,1,49,1,24,1,11,8,33,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10101 011001 11101 011111 1011001 11010001 010101 110100 1111 100101 110101 110111 100101 100111 110101 0100011 1010101 1000101 10010101 011111 111111 110100 110101 110101 111101 01111 11101 010101 111101 0100010101 1010111 01010101 111101 001111 1100110 10010 11101 010111 110001 000100 010101 010001 11010 111001 011001 110101 1001011 001101 110101 1111 011101 1010101 011001 0100111 110001 01010001 010101 11011 11111 111111 101011 110101 010111 100101 11101 1010111 110110 1111101 11111111 110111 111111 100100 0110001 110101 010001 01101 11001 010101 01010101 110001 100101 011111 00110 1101 11001 01001101 010001 111101 110101 010001 10101 0101100 100101 011101 11101 011101 00110101 0101011 1001001 110101 1001001 110101 110111 111001 110101 011010 100101 11011 1101 1100110 110001 11010100 111101 1111001 111101 111101 1111000 110101 110101 110101 110101 110100 010101 110101 111101 0100101 10001 010100 110101 110001 010011 110101 1001001 110101 110001 1100101 010111 010101 11001101 110111 0101111 11001101 1111110 1101011 0100101 111111 111101 100101 110101 11110 011100 010101 010111 010100 110101 110100 010001 111101 010111 1100101 110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 168
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, her, of, he, for, wine, cure are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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