This is an analysis of the poem The Foreign Drunk that begins with:
When you get tight in foreign lands
You never need go slinking,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXaXabab cdcdbebe Aaaaabab cXcbfgfg dhdhfXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 1101110 11110111 1101110 11010101 0111010 111011010 0101010 11010111 11110100 11011101 11110100 111100101 01001010 11110101 1110100 11110101 1100110 11111111 1101110 11011101 1111010 01111101 00101110 111100101 1101000 11111111 1110010 01010111 1110010 11010101 0100010 11110101 0111010 11110111 1111110 11010101 1101010 11111101 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Foreign Drunk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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