This is an analysis of the poem Iron Wine that begins with:
The ore in the crucible is pungent, smelling like acrid wine,
It is dusky red, like the ebb of poppies,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabXXXXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100100010101101 00101101010 11010101000 100001110100110 111001 1101001 0101010 1011100 11110100101 111101010101 10010100 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 459
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; like, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, so are repeated.
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