This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets 03: Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter that begins with:
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter
We drenched the altars of Love's sacred grove,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXdedecc
- 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: 10100101110 1101001101 10011101010 0100010101 1101010101 1101110001 1101010011 1101000101 1101110111 1111110001 1111010101 10000010101 0100010101 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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