This is an analysis of the poem Fredman's Song No. 10 that begins with:

Drink till after twelve or more,
Live it up with madmen ! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbBBXc dededdDDff gcgXccCChX XiXijeEEhh XjhjheeEEjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 101010 1011101 101110 1010101 0111101 101101 101101 010110 101111 0110101 111111 1111101 101010 1010101 1010111 111111 111111 101010 101110 0110101 100011 100110110 1011110 1001001101 1110101 101101 101101 101011 1011110 0110101 111010 1011111 101110 1110111 1110111 1111 1111 101111 0101111 1111111 101011 1011111 101111 1110111 1010001 001001 001001 111011 001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; giddy, spin, noon, and, night, morning, sky, new, shoes, to, dregs are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words giddy, noon, morning, new, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spin, night, sky, sir, shoes, dregs are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word sir at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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