This is an analysis of the poem A Tavern Feast that begins with:

Gay Bacchus liking B---s wine
A noble meal bespoke...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbcdedeefefXcbcgagadXdbheheiciciaiaffffjkjkaiailalaccXcdbdbbhbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 010110 1111001 11011 01110101 11101 11110101 10101 01010111 110101 11110101 10101 11011101 010011 10111111 10101 11010101 10111 11110111 111111 1111101 1101 0111111 111011 11110101 011010 11110101 011101 11010101 110001 1010101 10101 11110101 10101 1010101 110011 11010111 11101 11111111 11111 01110101 110101 1110101 110101 10101101 11101 11110111 11101 11010101 010111 1011111 111101 11011101 110001 1010101 110111 1010101 110101 11010101 010101 1011101 111101 110101 10001 11010101 110111 11010101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1947
  • Average number of words per stanza: 363
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; ye, his are repeated.

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