This is an analysis of the poem The Gardener Xlii: O Mad, Superbly Drunk that begins with:
O mad, superbly drunk;
If you kick open your doors and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdbeXXXbedXXbfbXefefeXgfeehchhXdEccbiiebghbddE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 01110111 101010 011011001 11110110 011010011 10101 111110 001011010 11101001 11010111 101011001 11101111 00100010110 1101111 1111011 111 1011101 1111100 1 1011010 11001001 111101010 00101101 11101010 11100111 101011001 111010110 01010010 11010110 111111001 111110010 10010110 111010010 111101011 001011001 110010010 110010010 111110101 1001101 11010010100 01101 00100101 11011101 10 01001011 11001101 1101010010 001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1653
- Average number of words per stanza: 304
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, them, let, be, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, i'll are repeated.
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