This is an analysis of the poem A Loafer that begins with:
I hang about the streets all day,
At night I hang about;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcb dcXcec Xfdfgf hahaea dgdgXg bbbbXb ibibfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 111101 11010111 111000101 11011111 01010101 11110111 111111 01111111 11011101 01001101 11010101 11010100 111101 11010101 11010011 01111111 01010101 110101110 110101 100111010 011100111 01001101 11010111 01010101 111111 111100001 01010111 01011100 11001111 11110111 111101 111100101 11011111 01011111 11010111 11010101 011001 0110001001 010101101 01011101 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- 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; i, my, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, oh, the, of are repeated.
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