This is an analysis of the poem A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety that begins with:
COME swish around, my pretty punk,
And keep me dancing still... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bdXdXeXeXaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101 11110101 111111 01000010 111101 1111110 110111 11111111 110101 11010010 011001 1111110 011101 0100011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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