This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Drink that begins with:
I had spent the night in the watch-house --
My head was the size of three -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdaeaceXeXcXc Xeceefdf XedeXgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010011 1110101 11111010 0110111 1110010010 01011001 01011110 1101111 01111010 101101001 111001010 101001011 01001110 0101101 111111000110 1110111 110101010 1100111 111011010 0111101 111010010 1101101 111010010 1111101 111111010 111101 1110010010 1111110 111111010 1110101 111011010 0111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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