This is an analysis of the poem The Three Drinkers that begins with:
Blacksmith Green had three strong sons,
With bread and beef did fill 'em,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baca bXXc bbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 0111010 111111011 11001010 11101010 0101011 1110111101 10111011 11101010 111111 110010101 111110010 01101110 1010110 111010111 110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Three Drinkers;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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