This is an analysis of the poem Heroism that begins with:
Ruby wine is drunk by knaves,
Sugar spends to fatten slaves,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1010101 1111110 10111010 1010101 1010101 01001111 1001111 1000111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Heroism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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