This is an analysis of the poem Drink Of This Cup that begins with:
Drink of this cup; -- you'll find there's a spell in
Its every drop 'gainst the ills of mortality; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBABacacaBAB dXdXededaBAB afafgagaabAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111010 0100110100100 10010110110 0110101000100 1101011110 1100101110100 1111011101 001001111100100 1101111010 0100110100100 10010110110 0110101000100 1011010110 011010101110 010011010110 010010010110 11011001001 001101001010 01001001101 0010111111010 11001111010 0100110100100 10010110110 0110101000100 1101110011 110011111110 010010111011 11110110010 110101001011 1010010010100 111010011111 1111011110110 11001111010 010110100100 10010110110 0110101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 593
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word reality at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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