This is an analysis of the poem To Peace that begins with:
THE cup, the ruby cup
Whence anguish drips,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1101 110101 0111 111111 1101 111101 1101 110011 1111 010101 1111 010101 0111 0100111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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