This is an analysis of the poem In A Wine Cellar that begins with:

SEE how it flashes,
This grape-blood fine!—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababXaXaXa caXaca dXdedf agXgag dedede dbdbdb aeXeae hihhhi djdjdj hihihi dadada bababa aXabjb beXXbe bBBbBB hjXjhj fififi dadada dkdkdkXbBBbBB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 0111 11010 1111 11110 0101 10000 10111 01011 0101 11010 0111 11010 01001 10110 1101 10110 0111 10010 010 11010 0100 11010 0100 11110 0101 10000 1101 01010 0101 11110 1001 01110 0101 01010 0011 11010 0011 101010 0101 01010 0101 01010 0101 01010 0111 11110 0101 11010 0101 11010 11100 11010 1100 11010 1101 11110 1101 11110 0111 10110 1111 11010 1101 01110 0101 11010 1101 11010 0101 01010 01001 11110 1101 01010 1111 111100 0101 11110 1111 11110 0111 11111 1111 110100 1111 11100 010 11010 1100 11110 0101 11110 0111 11110 1111 01110 0101 01110 0111 01010 1101 11110 0101 11010 1111 11010 1111 01010 1101 01110 1101 01010 1101 01010 0101 11010 0101 11110 0101 11110 0101 11110 0111 11110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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