Drinking Alone by Li Po: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Drinking Alone that begins with:

I take my wine jug out among the flowers
to drink alone, without friends....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa Xb Xa XX ac db db cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101010 0101011 111100101 11111111 101101 111110010 101001111 10001001 1110110 111111101 1111110 11101011 10111110 110100101 111 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
  • Average number of words per stanza: 12
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word way at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Drinking Alone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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