This is an analysis of the poem The Spilling Of The Wine that begins with:

The soldiers lie upon the snow,
That no longer gyrates under the spinning lights...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbXbceXefgdfhbebci bXchceedXecacaecXcf gXgbie
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,19,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 111011100101 11000111 1011010110011 1 01001010 11110111010 10 10111011 100100 1001 01001101 1011010 111100 011111 0101101 1111111 1111001 11110 01010 1000010 1110011011011 11110 1110011 1001010100100 11001010 10111 1 101010001010011 1001010 1 110111 100001001 11100010110 1000011 111 100011 111010100 1101 101111 0110110 10011101110110 101011010 0100101 101001 0111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wine is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase wine connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Spilling Of The Wine;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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