This is an analysis of the poem The Dead-Beat that begins with:
He dropped, - more sullenly than wearily,
Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcddX dcdXcaX XeX eX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111001100 1101011011 1101111001 1111010100 1001010111 1101011111 11011101011 110011 0111 1101110111 10010101101 1101010000 1001111001 01110101000 0111111101 1111111001 1001110111 10001010111 1111011101 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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