This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Wine that begins with:

Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcacXXcbbXdeaXaecfgfeXXhfieebejbgaebgeeajebda khlbdeigkgafm ledmiaXafgXgabkcegcaedka
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,13,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 1101 10101 110111 1 101 01 11 10101 1 1010010 110100 11010 100 01 101110011 1111 11100100 1011101 11 11110 100 11101 0101 110010100 111 10101 1 100 011 0100 110101 10101 1001 0101001 1 1001100 1101101 110 1101 11 1101 010111011 00100 101010 10110 10010101 110100 01011 010101 00110 1100110 110101 01010111 11100011 110100110 11100100 0101 110101110 0101001 111111 01001 01010 110101 11 0010001 1000 100100 010010 111010 1110 010010 001001 10 10100100 101 0100111 01001010 11010 0101001 1001000010 10101010 0100110010 0101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, your, the, in, to 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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