This is an analysis of the poem Are You Drinking? that begins with:
washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
out again...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefXcaXaeeXgdhiajikligaXmhjXmibjfXailecjddkm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011011 101 11001 1101 1 01010 11 1010111011 1111 10 101100101 101101 1011 1000 1111011 010111 1010 10 10101 1101011 101 100 111010101010 01010 100101001 1 100100 111 1011010 110011110100 1100 1111 1101110 01 1111 11110 0010 11 100 10010 1 01 1 101 11 0 1
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 895
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 18 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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