This is an analysis of the poem From The Persian Of Hafiz I that begins with:

Butler, fetch the ruby wine,
Which with sudden greatness fills us;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbadadEcfebX ghXXibjhkblaEaadmbclXcnX hXbaojhopkjho XdqfcffobfXXciabhbhecfh fpXnhopXhXXfXhbhgqX iohffhrjbaX cbbahipiXhfhhkpdaXcobabehholceXlcfrakenepbhobmchllkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,24,13,23,19,11,52,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 10101011 11110110 10101010 1010101 1010101 11111110 1010111 11101010 100101 010100101 010101010 1010101 11111001 10111010 1110111 10101010 01110100 1110101 1010101 111101 101101 1010110 1011101 1011101 1010111 11101010 1010011 10111110 1010011 11000101 10010101 10101110 11001101 11111100 1110101 1100111 1011101 1010011 1010101 1010101 1110111 0010101 1010001 11101010 10011101 1010111 1110100 1010101 11000101 1010001 1010001 1110101 1010101 1010101 10101010 0110001 1110111 10000101 11100011 1111101 1111110 10101010 1001110 1110101 1100101 1110101 1110101 1111101 11101010 01111010 1010101 0011101 1000101 01111101 1011101 11111100 11101001 1110101 1010011 11010101 1110101 110100101 10101100 00101000 1000101 10100100 1110101 1010101 1000101 10001010 1011101 11101110 1011101 10010101 1001101 11111010 1110101 1110111 1111001 111111 11010111 10001010 10101110 01010101 001101011 1010101 01011101 1010011 1110101 1100111 1010111 1011101 1110101 1111101 1010011 1010011 11101110 0110001 1000101 1011101 1110101 1010111 1010111 1011101 1010101 100101011 00101010 10101010 10101010 11101011 1011101 1111101 1011100 1101001 1011111 1110111 1011101 1010001 1110101 101101010 00101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 1111001 10000101 1101001 0100101 1010001 1010101 1110011 11011101 1110111 1010100 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 156
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, me, i, let, us, where are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, bring, let are repeated.

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