This is an analysis of the poem Arise O Cup- Bearer that begins with:

ARISE, oh Cup-bearer, rise! and bring
To lips that are thirsting the bowl they praise,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacbc dXdXdeXX bfbfbgXghehX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110111 0111100111 1011111101 11111011001 11101101101 0100100111 00100111101 0101111111 1010101101 11011111011 111001001111 0100110100 111110111 0111111011 0100100111 11110011011 0111101001 11011111 111101111 1110101101 111100100 11111010001 11110110010 1110110111 110101101 1101110111 1111010010011 10101101001 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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