This is an analysis of the poem A Toast that begins with:
See this bowl of purple wine,
Life-blood of the lusty vine! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXafXaaggffggff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1100101 1010101 0010101 1010101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010111 0010101 1010011 1011101 0011101 1001100 1010001 1001101 1110111 1110101 1011101 1111111 1011101 1110101 1110101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 743
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of, for are repeated.
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- summary of A Toast;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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