This is an analysis of the poem Mithridates that begins with:
I cannot spare water or wine,
Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa ccbb deae ffggbb hhccddXiiffggjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,6,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 011111011 0011001 1011111 10010101 1110111 1110001 01110111 0111101 01101110 1101111 11101110 1110011 1011011 1011011 11111011 10101011 1100101 1011101 1110111 101011 10101110 00101010 111010 110111010 11110101 1010001 01011101 1011101 01001101 10111111 111001111 1101011 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; or, me, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words give, from, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, it are repeated).
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