This is an analysis of the poem The Bench Of Boors that begins with:

In bed I muse on Tenier's boors,
Embrowned and beery losels all;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccac abddad abeXae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 100110101 01001 01011 01110101 1111101 01110101 11010111 1101 1101 01110101 1010101 101101001 11111111 1101 1100 01110101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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