This is an analysis of the poem Wine And Water that begins with:
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,
He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabX ccccbX ddXdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111011110101 1101001000111101 1011111001111111 11101001011111101 1101101001111101 10111010100101000100 0100001010110101 100110101111101 0101011011010101 1101101111011111 0101101001110101 11111010100101000100 110111111110111 1011110001101101 111111011101100 10101011010100101 1100101011010101 111110101001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, took, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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