This is an analysis of the poem Just One Sniff Of Gin that begins with:
Money isn't capable,
Of having it stretch......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABX cde FGEFXh gc XAXdhch FGEF Iah dgIXh ABX dgE EXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,2,7,4,3,5,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000100 01001 1010010 11001 11 01010101 1010011 111111 011 101101 011100 1010 11 01011011 0101011011 1000100 0100101 0010111 010101010101 0101010 011010001 1010011 111111 011 101101 1010101011010 101110111 011 101110 1 1010101011010 1011101 0101 1000100 01001 1010010 1 011011 1110101 1110101 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word could is repeated.
The author used the same word money at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gin is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words knees, gin at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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