This is an analysis of the poem Dram-Shop Ditty that begins with:
I drink my fill of foamy ale
I sing a song, I tell a tale,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabba ccdeed ffgffg hhijji aaekke aaXbld mmleel nndnnd nnXffX eealbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11011101 11010 11010001 10100111 11110 11111101 01000111 11110 11010111 01001101 11010 11111101 11110111 00010 110011101 01010100 01010 00010101 10110100 11011 01010101 01110101 01011 10111011 11010001 11010 01011101 01010101 11010 11010101 11111110 11010 11111111 01010010 01010 11010111 11011101 11010 11000110 11010101 11010 01000101 01010001 11110 11110101 01000101 01010 11110101 11011101 11010 01011101 11010011 11010 01010110 11111101 11110 01010100 01110100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
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