This is an analysis of the poem The Wine Of Song that begins with:

WITHIN Fancy's halls I sit and quaff
Rich draughts of the wine of Song,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabbaca deccece dfggfdf Xfhhfcf id jjdXd iakkaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,2,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011111 1100101 11111 00101 00100111 1111100101 1110101 010101101 1110101 11111 01101 11100110 111011101 011101 1101000101 1110101 11111 00101 10101101 1110101111 0011111 010010111 0101101 11111 11001 1101101 110110111 0110101 1100010101 11101001 11101 11001 0111101 010110101 1110101 111110101 0100101 11111 10101 00101101 0101100110 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of, on are repeated.

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