This is an analysis of the poem A Draught Of Sunshine that begins with:
Hence Burgundy, Claret, and Port,
Away with old Hock and madeira, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXbccddeffddedadaddgghhiihhiijjggcXiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011 010111010 11011111 1010010110 010010010 111000110 11001 111111 111001 0101 11011110 101001 10111 01011 111001 0010110010 1000100 100111 011101 11100101 0011010 0100010 110101 0010101 110101 010111 100111 100101 110101 101101 001101 101001 010101 110101 111111 111111 001111 010100 1011010 1111110 11000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1126
- Average number of words per stanza: 209
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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