This is an analysis of the poem In Town that begins with:
OUT of work and out of money—out of friends that means, you bet—
Out of firewood, togs and tucker, out of everything but debt—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd eeaa eeff ggaa hhff iidd jjaaXddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101110101011111 1010111101010111 111010101010101 1010010100010101 011110101010111 0110110101010101 111010101010111 101000111110111 1010110101010101 001000101010101 101010101010101 1010001011000011 011010101111101 101000100011101 111010101010101 111011111011111 101110101010101 101111101111101 111010100110010 10100100011101 111111101110111 101010111011101 101100101010111 111111101110101 11101111001111101 101110101110001 111010100010101 001011101010001 101011101010101 110100101010101 1010001001011111 111010100110001 001110101110111 011011101110101 11110101010111 101011111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, out, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of In Town;
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