This is an analysis of the poem A Fly About A Glasse Of Burnt Claret. that begins with:

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Forbear this liquid fire, Fly,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabb Xccdd XeXeX Xffdd aeebb affXg Xeehh Xffff Xiijj hkkhX aaadd XXgbh Xlldd XXXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10010101 00110101 11010101 10111111 1 01010101 11110101 11010101 00110001 1 10010101 110110100 10110101 11010100 1 01110011 11010101 101010001 10010101 1 10110101 01010101 1011100010 010111010 1 10110101 11111111 1101001 01010101 1 01010011 11100101 010100111 11010101 1 01010111 11110101 11010001 11001001 1 10111111 0101101 11010101 110111101 1 11010101 11110011 11011101 1011010 1 1111101001 0111011 10111101 0001001 1 11111000 01110101 10111111 11010101 1 11110101 10110101 100110011 01011111 1 1111110 011111010 11110101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, her are repeated.

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