This is an analysis of the poem Aner Clute that begins with:

Over and over they used to ask me,
While buying the wine or the beer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXXddeeacefbeef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011011 11001101 0010011100011 10101101011 11100101 1110100 1110011 10100100011 0110100 111110011 01011110 001101001 1110101101 0100100111010 10101010101001011 1111111111 0110010101 00101001010010 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 768
  • Average number of words per stanza: 146
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thief, he are repeated.

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