This is an analysis of the poem For “the Wine Of Circle” By Edward Burne Jones that begins with:

DUSK-HAIRED and gold-robed o'er the golden wine
She stoops, wherein, distilled of death and shame,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdXddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111100101 1101010111 1011110101 10110101101 1101101010 1111100001 1111110011 11001110100 10110111101 11001110101 1100010100 0111010111 0011010111 10100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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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