This is an analysis of the poem A New Rule that begins with:
It is the rule with drunkards to fall upon each other,
to quarrel, become violent, and make a scene....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccXbdXXXbbXcXdcba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00010100101110 010011001101 01001011010 10111100100101 11011 0100010111 10101111100000101 0101010110011 111110101 1111101 1101001 1010111110010101 010110101000010 0110001100 111001110 11111111 111111011 11101111 011011101 1101011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 910
- Average number of words per stanza: 174
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gold is repeated).
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