This is an analysis of the poem I Had Not Tried The Wine That Ancients Made that begins with:

I had not tried the wine that ancients made,
And had not heard of Ossian’s old tune;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc cdXX dede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011101 111101011 1111110101 1001010101 101100010001 11010110101 1111010101 0111000111 11010100010 01010101001 11110100010 0101010101 110110101 0111010101 0101010101 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, s, and are repeated.

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

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