This is an analysis of the poem The Alcoholic Albatross that begins with:
Brothers, what are we to think
When we muse upon strong drink?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff bbddXaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1110111 0011000 00101001 1010111 1110001 1010111 1110101 10101110 00101010 1011111 10100101 1111001 1111101 1010101 1000101 1110111 1001101 1011101 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is is repeated.
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