This is an analysis of the poem Signing The Pledge that begins with:
Do you see this cup, this tempting cup,
Its sparkle and its glow?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe fghg eiii ifdf ijhj keje gclc gdhd hmim ckje jeme mgmg XlalXdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 010101 111011101 010111 111110111 110111 01010001 110111 11111101 111111 11010101 111101 1111100101 010100 1111101 010101 11011111 110101 11110111 010001 111111101 110111 11010011 010101 11011001 011111 11110111 111111 111011101 110111 11110111 111101 01010101 1101001 100100101 111101 01010111 010111 11111101 1010001 111101101 011111 11010101 110101 10011111 100111 01110101 111101 01110111 110011 11110101 111100 101011000 100101 010011101 010101 01010011 111101 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, cup are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i've is repeated.
The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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