This is an analysis of the poem Be Drunk that begins with:
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's the
only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabacXcXXXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110011111100000 101111010100100111 11111001110001000 1 111010011011110 1 1001101001010110 0100101010111101 10001001001110101 0101011011010101 1010101101010110 101011010111001 111110101000100 111100010101010 01000111110011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 877
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; to, you, of, everything, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines be is repeated).
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