This is an analysis of the poem The Drug Clerk that begins with:
The drug clerk stands behind the counter
Young and dapper and debonair….... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XA bbaacccaca XcdcXdccefebdfbdccghfhgfXffXii cAcaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,30,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101010 11101101 0111011001 01010101 1111110101 0111010001 0111010101 01010101 1101011111 10111101 1100010101 110011 1101101101 1001010111 11000101 011101 1011011100 1101 101101010 11110111010 1111110101 1111011111 010111 1101010101 1101010101 010111 11010101 0101011101 1101001101 0101010101 0100110111 0111010001 11010101 010111 1101100101 10010101 0101100110 111 10110101 100101 0101000101 1101001101 1001111111 11101101 11010101 1100010101 1111110110 11010001110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Drug Clerk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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