This is an analysis of the poem A Cup Of Tea that begins with:
I have sipped, with drooping lashes,
Dreamy draughts of Verzenay;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXXcX XdXdaaaa aaaacece fXXbfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1010100 11101010 0010101 11101110 11101001 11111010 1010001 10100100 1010101 10101010 1010101 10110010 010101 10101110 1010101 111010110 010101 10111110 1010101 1001010 0011101 11101010 0010111 1110010 101010 1101011 1010011 1111110 011101 1101110 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, and are repeated.
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- summary of A Cup Of Tea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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