This is an analysis of the poem To One Demanding Why Wine Sparkles that begins with:

So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss eyes;
When tis not Fire but light in either flyes. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeaaffggXegghhiidXhXjjdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101011101 11110110101 1011110101 1011001001 1101011101 11010001001 1100011111 1100011101 01110110010 01100100010 1111110111 0101010101 0011110001 1111110101 1101111101 111100101 1111110011 110101010 1011010101 1110010111 1101010101 0101011101 1111010101 11010111001 1111110101 0110011100 11001110101 110101110 1111111111 11001000100 1111010101 1011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1391
  • Average number of words per stanza: 248
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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