This is an analysis of the poem The Low-Down White that begins with:

This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down;
There's money to burn in the streets to-night, so I've sent my klooch to...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 00011110110101011 11001001011111101 001011010010100101 111101111010010111 110101011111011 0110101111011100 0110101001111001001 011011110010100101 110010101110101 1111011011111111 00101101101011111 11101001011100101 111010100110100101 100111011111111 1100111101110010101 1011110101100101 11110101111111101 110010110100101001 101001101011110101 10111101010010111 11011101111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, me, i, forget, make, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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