This is an analysis of the poem The Drunkards In The Street that begins with:
The Drunkards in the street are calling one another,
Heeding not the night-wind, great of heart and gay, — ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXba XcXc Xdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100011101010 10101110111 100110 101010 10101011101 11110100100010 0100010101 1010100101010 1111011011 0111010101 1111111101 0010101100101010 0101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; calling is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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