This is an analysis of the poem On Lending A Punch-Bowl that begins with:
This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times,
Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas times;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddee ffgg hhXa ddee eeee bXff aaii hXcc hhcc aaddXiiff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101010011 01011101110101 100111001110111 11110001101111 010100101010101 111011101111101 11110101110111 110111001001101 111011101010101 11010101010101 11110101010111 111010111110101 11010111010001 11010100110101 11011100110101 11010111100011 11011101010101 011001101010111 010101000111100 01110111110101 111010101011101 111010101110001 01010111010001 11010111010101 11010010111101 11011101110101 1111010011111 111101101110101 11100001010101 11010101010110 11010101110111 10011111110101 01001101111111 01011101110101 11010111110111 111010101010101 111110111011101 0100010110011110 1111011110101 11010111111101 111111001001101 111110101010101 101011111110101 11001101101101 1101000010111010 011101010101010 101100100011111 01010101110101 11011101110101 01010101100100 11010101011001 11101101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, he, you, in, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, a, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines times is repeated).
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