This is an analysis of the poem His Other Chance that begins with:

He was down and out, and his pluck was gone,
And he said to me in a gloomy way:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacXdedefbfXbabXghghdadacbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110111 1110100101 110110111 1011010101 100111111 1111101110 1110111111 1110111101 110111101 1111101111 100111111 1010100101 11101101101 0101111101 1010101100 0111110101 110111101 111100101 1110111100 1111011110 11111101 111100101 1111101111 11100111111 1111100101 0101110101 0110111101 1111101111 0101100101 1110110101 110101101 10101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 279
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, i, you are repeated.

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

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