This is an analysis of the poem New Year’s Eve that begins with:
Staggering homeward between the stream and the trees the unhappy
drunkard...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcbXdefXdEbfaccEgbbgfbE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001011010010 10 100101110 010010111010010 101 10010101 0110101001001010 1100 11010011010 1101011000100111 0010 10001010110 111111010 011110010110101001 01010010100 0101011010001011100 01010010100 111100111 111111010 011010011001011 10 101111001 001001000100101000100 110 01011001 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1055
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nobody is repeated.
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