This is an analysis of the poem Dining-Room Tea that begins with:
When you were there, and you, and you,
Happiness crowned the night; I too, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccccdXeedd Xfggccaach ceeiijjfXaa XXkkkkXhb llmmdddddXffbXaannddkkkkaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,11,9,26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 10010111 10110101 110100101 111101101 11111111 11010101 01110111 11010111 10001000 11001101 01010111 101101001 01010111 11001100 11011100 11011111 00110101 10011101 110010101 11011101 11111011 10111111 01010100 11010101 11011101 1101010001 01010101 11010101 11011111 11110101 110111010 111101110 11111101 1110111 11001100 11111000 11010101 11100101 101111001 10111111 10010100 01000100 10010 111 1011101 10110101 11011101 11010111 01110101 01010101 01010011 010100110 111101110 11111101 010011100 11110101 100011000 001010001 01011101 01110111 11011111 010100111 01000101 01011101 11111101 11001011001 11111111 11010111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 489
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you, and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the, a are repeated.
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