This is an analysis of the poem Gin that begins with:
The first time I drank gin
I thought it must be hair tonic....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcddXefcggheeXigjkdlkfeekXccXlcdbcfceXdkfXdachdcjadaieXdbabibcjgdcccddadkXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 77,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 11010110 1101010 0011101 011111 011010001 1101001 1011011 01001110 0101101 1010101 0011101 01011011 10001011 10100101 111000000 10011010 01011011 1010010110 11001001 10100010 101001101001 01101000100 01001010 011010001 10101100 10101001 110101 1010010100 001011010 00010111000 0010001001 111011101 01100101 111011010 0101011101 0010101010 110101011 010101101 101111010 111111 010111010 1110010 0100100000 101110001 1101111 11111001 00101101 11101001 1100111 1010110 0111110 011111 1110101 01100010010 100111 1010100 1011011 10100101 111100100 11110110 1111110 0100101 0011101 110100100 0101110 101001011 0101101 10100101 01001001 110111 10010011 11111010 0101010100100 011010111 10100111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2458
- Average number of words per stanza: 427
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of, gin, it, you, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines have is repeated).
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- summary of Gin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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