This is an analysis of the poem Villanelle Of The Poet's Road that begins with:

Wine and woman and song,
Three things garnish our way:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbA abA abA abA abAXabAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 111011 101101 111111 100111 111011 111011 111011 101101 101101 101011 111011 111101 1111011 101101 111001 101011 111011 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word long at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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