This is an analysis of the poem Drought And Doctrine that begins with:
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says “five,”
But it ain't as if you'd merely kep' our little 'un alive;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ddXX Xeff gghh gghh ffii jjiiiiee kk ll iigX iiee kkdd iimm eejj eekk iiee bbdd ggdd cckXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,2,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010101110111 101101101110101 111010101111101 1010111010100101 111110101011101 111011101110101 011110100011111 1110111101110011 111011101011111 001010111010001 111010101111111 1010111110100100 111010101010110 101010101111101 11110111011101 11010111010101 11110101110101 11010001010101 11100101111111 01011101010111 111110001111111 01111001010101 010100001110011 11110011110001 110101111010101 10110111010111 11110101010101 1110101001010101 111110100011111 10111111010101 111010101011101 001010101010101 101010110010101 01110101110101 11110101011111 110001010100001 11011111010101 0111111000010101 101001101110111 101010101010100 11111111110111 110111000111001 101010101010101 111010111010100 110010111110001 11010101010111 01010111110101 111011101110101 01011011010100 01001100010011 111000111011101 11101010010001 11010101010101 101110100010001 100001011111001 001010100110101 101011101111111 11110010111001 111011111110101 001110101011101 11110011010001 101011100100101 101110100010001 11010101110101 1110101010010111 10100010101101 1010001010010101 101010000110001 11011111111101 11110101111111 111011100011101 101011101110101 101110110010101 01111101111101 101010101010001 1101010101001 11110101010101 111011101110101 10110111010110 01010101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, an', to, i, for, had, me, with, in, that, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
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