This is an analysis of the poem What Sweet Wine Is This that begins with:

Oh Arabian wine-girl what sweet wine is this!
I am fully intoxicated and my eyes get red....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXCDCDc aXbXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 101001111100 11100101011111 0010110111110 101101001010 110001001101010 101101001010 110001001101010 101011101010001 1101110011101110 1101101111101 110010110001 1010101101001 111010100010 010101001001010 01001110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wine, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.

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