This is an analysis of the poem Thieves' Kitchen that begins with:
GOOD roaring pistol-boys, brave lads of gold,
Good roistering easy maids, blown cock-a-hoop ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaXaaXcadXadecbecXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 01001011101 1101011111 0101010101 1111110111 11010100101 1111011101 1101111110 0111011111 11000111111 11011100101 0101011101 1111110101 1101110101 1111001111 11000110111 1111001111 1100111111 11001101101 11010111111 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1015
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word good is repeated.
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