This is an analysis of the poem A Bottle And Friend that begins with:

There's nane that's blest of human kind,
But the cheerful and the gay, man, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc ababXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 10101011 1111 101011101 1111111 11010111 10110111 11010111 1101111 01110001 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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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  • summary of A Bottle And Friend;
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