This is an analysis of the poem O Saqi, May Your Wine Never Cease To Flow that begins with:

O saqi, may your wine never cease to flow,
And may your glass forever have...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb XcXd efgh fihj dief gcXd gcdf bfXf Xacj X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110101 11110101 0100001 011111 0010001 1111111 0010001 111110 1101111 1111010 1100110 10100101 10111 0110101010 010101010 011101 1111101 1001111 10100 1101010 1111101 11011101 11101 010111 01010010 110111 111101 11011010 011110 01101101 0100110 10110111 001111 011101 1101010 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; your is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, in, between are repeated.

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