This is an analysis of the poem Heroic Poem In Praise Of Wine that begins with:

To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccc ddddeeeefXeeebbeeggeehhddeeifXjjeekkeejjiieeeeee bbeejjaall mmggiiggeeeejjddlXefggaX eeaaaXjaaaannhhiimmaaggllaakkiijjllfXiibbbee cc eeeeooiiaaaabbddX iiddeeddppgg kkaajjXXee bbll iijjkjaaaala iibblliiiiakkaajjaaqqii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,48,10,24,44,2,17,12,10,4,12,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 00110010101 01011101001 1110001110 1100000101 10010101001 1101001101 011001110101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 0101010101 11011000101 0101110101 10010100111 0101110101 010111001100 0101011101 11001010111 01001010101 1101010011 1001011001 1001010101 1111010101 010010100100 0101010101 0110011101 011010101 0101010111 1001010101 11010010101 01010010111 1001100111 11011110101 0101001101 1 0101010101 0101011101 0110010101 0011000101 1100010111 1101010011 1101010101 0111010111 10110001001 01010101001 1100010101 100010011001 01010010101 1001010101 1100010101 1111010101 1101010101 0111011101 1101110101 1101010101 110100001001 01010101001 0101010101 1011010111 01010100101 0111100101 0101100101 0101011001 111010101 1111100101 0110010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111110011 1000010101 110101011 1111011101 11110101010 0111010011 11110100101 1011010111 0111011001 1111110111 1110111101 1011000101 11001110101 0101110011 1100010101 11010010101 01001010101 1111010110 1100111100 0101110001 0101010101 10001101101 1111010101 0110011010101 100110101100 1101010101 10001011101 00110000101 1111010111 01001001101 1111010111 0101010100 1101011001 0100010011 11110100101 10111101001 1011110101 01001010001 1101010101 0111010101 010010001001 0101110011 1110101001 1111001101 1101100101 11010010101 10010100011 0101010101 1101110001 1111010111 1101011101 0111111010 1100010101 110111001 1101000101 0101011000 1101010111 1101110001 10010100101 0111000101 11001010001 0110000101 01111101001 01010101001 1101110101 1010011101 1111110111 0101010011 1100110101 1101010101 01001010101 1101010111 0101011101 1101001111 00101010101 0101010101 01010100101 1101000111 0101110101 11010010001 1001010101 111110 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 0110010101 10100001001 100111001 110100011 01100001001 000111100110 01001001010 1101010111 010111001 1101100101 0101010101 0111110101 0101010101 01001010101 0101010101 11010100001 01010010100 11010101001 1110011111 1111111111 11010100011 110010010101 1111110101 11111001001 1101011101 11001011101 1001010101 01010111011 1 11111001001 1011010101 0110000101 11000100111 1111011101 01 1001011111 1111010101 1101010111 1011100101 110111101 11010000101 1001011111 0100011101 1011010111 1101011111 1111010011 1 10101110011 10110100111 1111101001 110100110001 1110011101 1001010101 0101010101 1111011111 1111000101 1100011001 11001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 747
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 213
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wine, of, vines, to, what, our, and, with, we, by, thee, these, had, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, wine, the, and, with, we, by, so are repeated.

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