This is an analysis of the poem Wine, Women, And Song that begins with:

Ovarus mine,
Plant thou the vine... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXccdeed ffdeedaaghhg iiXjjXkkfddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001 1101 010101010 11001 110001 011001100 1111 0101 110111010 01101 01010 110111010 0101 1101 010101110 0111 1101 010101110 1111 0101 110111010 1101 0111 011101110 0100 0111 010101110 1111 0101 000101010 1001 1111 010111010 1111 0111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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