This is an analysis of the poem No Beer, No Work that begins with:

The shades of night was fallin’ slow
As through New York a guy did go... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbX ccddX XXccX eebbX ffggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 11110101 11110111 01101101 1111 01110111 01011001 11111101 11110101 1111 11010111 01010011 01011111 10011101 1111 11011101 01111101 10110101 11111111 1111 01111111 11000101 11000101 01000101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ' is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of No Beer, No Work;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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