This is an analysis of the poem A Toast that begins with:
There's wine in the cup, Vancouver,
And there's warmth in my heart for you, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbXb ACAADXA XbebXaea ACAADXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 11101111 11101111111 10111101 00101110 0010111 101001111101 1101101 11010100100101 001111101111 10101111 1110100100011111 11101 00100010 010101 110011110 11001111 1101111101 11111101 11011110 1101111 1100100101 1110101 11010100100101 001111101111 10101111 1110100100011111 11101 00100010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, your, to, my, here's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Toast;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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