This is an analysis of the poem Craftsmen Of Wine Bowls that begins with:

On this wine bowl—pure silver,
made for the house of Herakleidis,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXabbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110 110101000 101001 10110100101 001011010011 10010111100 0010110011 110111010 01111010101 011010001 1010111101 11101000011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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