This is an analysis of the poem The Bottom that begins with:

I stopped drinking on my way down the hill
to the liquor store when two guys pulled up...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefgddaagdddegfXcXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111101 0010111111 11011001111101 110010001010 0100101010001 11110101 1010010111 1111110 111011110 10101010001 111110010100 11111001 01010110101110 01111110 101011101110 1011110011010 1010101011011 10111111011 1110011111 00111111101 10001011001010110 1110100111111 111110110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1054
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, stopped, drinking are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines drinking is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Bottom ;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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