This is an analysis of the poem Drinking Song that begins with:

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Come, old friend! sit down and listen!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a BcbX bXbX dXdX XXXe eaXa aeae ebeX eeee XXeX XeXe aeae BcbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110110 11111110 00101011 10101110 00101100 11001010 110010110 10101010 10011110 10101010 10111100 10100010 10101010 10111100 10101110 10101110 101010010 11111010 101001010 11101100 11101110 111100010 10101010 10101010 11000110 11101010 00111010 10101010 101011000 101000010 10101010 101001010 10111110 100111010 11101010 011001010 10101010 10101110 10001010 10101110 00100010 10101010 100101010 11001010 10110010 11111110 10101011 101001110 00101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.

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