This is an analysis of No Beer, No Work by Ellis Parker Butler.
The shades of night was fallin’ slow
As through New York a guy did go…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbX ccddX XXccX eebbX ffggX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 01011101 11110101 11110111 01101101 1111 01110111 01011001 11111101 11110101 1111 11010111 01010011 01011111 10011101 1111 11011101 01111101 10110101 11111111 1111 01111111 11000101 11000101 01000101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
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