This is an analysis of the poem In The Cup that begins with:
There is grief in the cup!
I saw a proud mother set wine on the board;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbbbbccddcc aXeffggXXabbeehhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101001 11011011101 01001101111 01010001001 01101001011 001011001111 001001101111 111101111 101111001001 101111001111 0011001001011 101011111001 001011101001 101001 010111011010 101101001001 01001011001 111111001101 11101011101 11011111001 110010110111 101001011001 101001 01011011011 01011101001 101011101011 01001101001 11011011011 111001001011 11101011101 11101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 754
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, and are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of In The Cup;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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