This is an analysis of the poem Drunk that begins with:

Too far away, oh love, I know,
To save me from this haunted road, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cccc cdcd dddd ebeb fafa ccggchchc cdccddidi bcbbcjkjk fcfc lili hbhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,9,9,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011111 01100101 11010111 10111001 01110101 11110101 101100101 11000101 01110111 111110001 10010101 1001101 11010111 1100101001 110101101 11001001 01111111 01010101 010111001 1011011 11011111 0101100101 110010101 1010101 0010101111 11110010 1011110111 111010111 1111110010 00111111111 01011 111111111 1101 110101101 1100111 11110001 0111010111 0101001 0111010101 0011 10010101 10001001 1010110101 01011001 001100101111 010011111 0011111 1110100100 01001 10111011100 111001 0100100101 0111001 110110101 0010101 11110111 1100101 0110111 0111001 11111110 010101 011011011 10101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, her, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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