This is an analysis of the poem Drinking Alone In The Moonlight that begins with:
Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbdaXcebX afcbadfegbaXbbaba XbbbacXgc aeXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 10101101 10111110 111101 01010010 1100111 0101111 101101 1111110001 01101001 01101111 11111100 00101001 1101001 0111111 1001001 01001101 1001111 1001011 111111 01011111 001111 111111 11111 1111111 1111010 101011111 110101 100101 101 0101000101 111111101 111100101 1011111011 10111010110 11111101011 1110110011111 0110011010001 0101101101 0101111111 10111010010 11111101 1010011010010 11001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, whenever are repeated.
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