This is an analysis of the poem A Mountain Revelry that begins with:

To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,
We drained a hundred jugs of wine....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111011110 11010101 010101 001111010101 1111001011 111011101010 01110101101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of A Mountain Revelry;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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