This is an analysis of the poem Alcohol's Arraignment And Doom that begins with:

Alcohol! Alcohol! who are thy victims?
Come, answer me quickly; stand forth to the bar!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbdde abfXbgge ahaahiiX ajggjiiX abffbjjk kcllciik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111110 11011011001 111010 011110 11111001011 10111 111101 1101111101 11011011110 10110100101 110110 111010 01011011101 10010 0110100 0101101101 10110111110 01011001001 110110 110110 010110001111 11011 111111 1111011101 11011111110 0111011001 110110 111110 11101000101 01101 110101 0101011110 10111111110 11011001001 100110 111110 11001011111 11011 101101 0101111011 10110011011 111011011101 1000111 100111 11101001001 11101 011011 0110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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.

    The author used the same word alcohol at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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