This is an analysis of the poem The Drunkard that begins with:
from St. Ambrose
He fears the tiger standing in his way. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a baab cXXc deedXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0111 1101010001 0101010111 11011111010 101110011111 10111111101 0110011111 110101110100 0101110101 1101011101 0101100101 0101010001 0111010101 1101110001 101011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; god, to, me, tiger are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words god, the are repeated.
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