This is an analysis of the poem The Solitary’s Wine that begins with:

A flirtatious woman’s singular gaze
as she slithers towards you, like the white rays...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbccbddeXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0010101001 11100111011 01011101001 111001010010 0110100101 1010000101 01001001001 0100010101 1011010110 01001011010 1101010101 11111111 1010100101 101010101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
  • Average number of words per stanza: 104
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s is repeated.

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