This is an analysis of the poem We Went Out Of Our Minds With The Easy Life that begins with:

We went out of our minds with the easy life,
Wine from morning on, hungover by evening,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXb aXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100101 10101100110 111101010 111101 1100010100011 01010101 101001110 1101110 1111101011 10011010100 01001011 1010010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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