This is an analysis of the poem Doughnuts And Cider that begins with:
LAST night I single handed fought a gang of murderers that came
To get my money or my life, and very nearly did the same; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeccXcceecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101010011 0111011111010001 1100010111001101 1101010111111101 11111101001010101 01111101011010111 01111101010111001 1111010111010011 0101110111110101 1101011101010101 1100110111100111 0111111101011111 0111011101000101 0111110111011111 1101010111011101 0111011101011101 11110110101011111 0101110111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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