This is an analysis of the poem Benedictine that begins with:

The Benedictine scents and stains
the languor of your pallid lips;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba aaAX cddc AXaa edde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111 01001101 11100111 010100101 111111010 010111010 010011010 0101101010 11111111 11111101 10000100 11011101 010011010 100101010 111101010 110111010 110101001 11011101 01111101 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lips, your, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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