This is an analysis of the poem The Rape Of The Baron’s Wine that begins with:

Who was stealing the Baron's wine,
Golden sherry and port so old,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbAcbbcaccadXedcffcXggf haahijjiAccXeffekcckahahcaaclggl bffXceechmmhimmidiidicci hcchabbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,32,24,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101 10101111 10111101 1011101 10100101 10111011 1011111 10110101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1010101 10010101 1011101 010110101 1010111 1010101 10111001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 10010101 1011101 1010101 1011111 1011101 1011101 1010101 10101110 1001001 1010101 0010111 1011101 1110001 01010101 11011101 11110111 01010111 11011101 11010101 11110111 11010101 01010111 11010111 01010101 11010101 11011001 11110111 11010101 01010101 11010111 11110101 01010111 11111111 11011111 11010101 010010101 11111101 01010101 11010001 010111001 01010111 11110111 11110101 01100101 11110001 110101110 010101010 11011101 11110111 01110111 11010101 11110101 01001001 01110111 11010101 01110101 11010101 01110101 11110101 110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 747
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; his, and, to, he, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Rape Of The Baron’s Wine;
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  • history of its creation;
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