This is an analysis of The Drunkard by Charles Harpur.
Disease was lurking in the cup!
Disastrous folly mantling there!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcXdd eXeXffgg chchiijj cfcfbbccXehehbbff
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 01110001 01010101 110111001 10010101 11011101 11000101 10010001 010101010011 01010111 11011110 01010101 01010101 11001101 11010101 111000101 010001110001 11110101 11101110 01010101 01110101 11011101 01001101 11110011 1111001010101 11110111 01010101 010100101 01000101 01010101 11010101 111010101 0100001010101 11111001 010100101 11110101 010010001 10110111 11011101 11011101 110100110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
he, his
Anaphora
his, oh, and
