This is an analysis of the poem The Magic Cup that begins with:

THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared,
Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bbccddccee ddffddgg hhiiffjjeebb cckkddllkkccXd hhaaffaagg mmaaddddlliI nnooffgggg ccffiI hhXk hhllmmaaaaaaggdd llppqqaaggkknnbb ffaaccccnnffaannaaaa aaggkkrr ddnnhhff kkaaffllll ffggkkaall kkkkaaaa ggbbaadd aaccllnnllddaakkmmgdgggg aaffaacckkffhhffaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,8,12,14,10,12,10,6,4,16,16,20,8,8,10,10,8,8,24,18,8,4,6,16,16,16,6,16,16,10,2,8,6,6,4,8,6,12,6,18,20,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010001 1101110101 0100100101 0101011101 1101111111 1101110101 01000110101 0101001101 1011110101 1111110110 1101010101 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111010001 1101010101 0101011101 110001011 0100011101 1101010111 0101001101 01010111001 110010111101 1111011111 1100000111 01101110101 11110101001 1101011101 1101011101 0101010101 0111010111 01110000101 1111011111 1101101111 1111011001 0100011101 1101111101 11010111001 1101001101 1001110101 11001110111 0101110101 1100010011 1111001100 11010101110 0101010101 1111011101 11001010111 1101010101 11010010001 0101110101 0101110101 1111011101 1101010101 0001010101 1101001101 1101011101 1111010111 10110100001 0101000111 10011111101 1101100001 1101010101 1111110111 1101110001 1101010101 10010101001 0001000101 1110110101 0101010111 1101010001 1111011101 01011011101 1101110111 1101110111 11010110001 0101010111 1101000101 1101010011 11001011101 1001110101 0100111001 1101101101 0001000101 0111010101 01001010001 11110001010 11110011001 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10010010001 11001000101 1101010101 1100011111 1110011101 1101010101 0011011001 0101010111 1111001101 1101011111 1001010101 0101010101 0101010111 1101010101 1111010011 1101111111 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101110101 0101011101 0111010101 1111110001 11100010011 01100010101 0101011101 0101110101 0101110101 1000110101 1100111111 1111010101 1001010101 0101010001 1101010100 1101110101 0101000111 0101010101 0111011001 0111110001 1101010111 0111010101 1101010101 1001010001 1101011001 1101011111 0101110101 0101010111 0111110101 0111111001 1111110101 1101011111 0101001101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010111 0101011101 1101010001 1111010100 1101100111 1001011111 11000100101 1111000101 0101010101 1111010101 01011111101 1101011111 1101110101 0101110101 0011000101 1011000101 1111111101 1111010101 1001110101 1101110101 01010110111 1101100101 01001010111 0100111111 1101110001 1111010101 11001010101 1110010101 1101110001 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 11110010111 1101011101 10011010101 1101010001 0101010101 1001010101 01111101010 1111110101 01011110001 1101010101 1101011101 0101110111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 01100010001 1101010101 1101110101 1111001101 1111010101 0111010111 1101110001 11110010011 1101110101 1110111101 1101010111 0101011111 0101010101 1100010101 0111110101 0101010101 1101001101 11010101001 1101010101 1111110011 11010101001 1111111101 1001011111 01110110111 1001011101 1111010101 0101010101 0101110101 01110111101 1101111111 1101110011 1101000101 0101011001 0101010101 0101001101 1111010001 0111010011 1111000101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1111111101 1101110101 1001010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101011101 0110110101 1101010101 1101000101 1101011100 0111110101 1101110001 1101001100 1111011101 11010101001 1101011101 1111010101 1111110101 1101011101 1111011101 1111111111 1101111101 0101011101 0101110101 0011010101 1101010111 0101010100 0101101001 0111010101 1100010101 1101001101 1111010101 1110011101 0111001001 1111011111 0101000111 1101001101 0101000101 1101010011 1101010010 0101110101 1101010001 1101010101 0001010101 1101011100 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 45
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 460
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, 'tis, your, to, be, in, and, her, his, they, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, calista, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Magic Cup;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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