Analysis of In the tavern gambling
Gambling
a nice caption
for a vague adventure
inside the tavern
where silks are torn
there dump the aged faces
with rapples
on their cheeks
and a pipe
which ejects smokes
fixed on their sturdy-long lips;
half intoxicated,
they call
the mr barman
"more bottles and fire!"
"i will win this draft"
shout one
"no way"
rebuck two
red-green-blue
turn the floor
as the white gin
chameleonise
grandpa spending his retirement
with top stories
of the wars.
And those gambled-off
enjoying his tales
as their eye and mouths flung open
as he plant into them
"...my team cross'd the chad...."
".....a battalion was court-martial'd that week...."
yes!they were,
for with the tavern battalion,
another war is eminent!
| Scheme | XAB XXCCXXXX XXABXAXD DXXC EXXXXAXXX BAE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (51%) |
| Metre | 100 0110 101010 01010 1111 110110 11 111 001 1011 1111011 10100 11 01010 110010 11111 11 11 101 111 101 1011 1 11010100 1110 101 01101 01011 11101110 111011 11101 0010111011 10 11010010 01011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 667 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 8, 8, 4, 9, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 35 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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