This is an analysis of the poem The Glass On The Bar that begins with:
Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn,
And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccddXc eefXcX aafXcc aaggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011011011 11001101001 101001001001 11001001111 11001101011 11111001101 11011011101 101011111011 01101111011 11001011101 101001011111 101111101001 11101011011 101101011011 11011101111 111001111101 111011001001 111101101101 11001011101 11001111101 11011011011 11001001101 101110101101 101001001101 11011001001 01101101011 11001001111 01001001101 11101101011 11101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, that, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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