This is an analysis of the poem But In The Wine-Presses The Human Grapes Sing Not Nor Dance that begins with:
But in the Wine-presses the human grapes sing not nor dance:
They howl and writhe in shoals of torment, in fierce flames consuming,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaaa XXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011001011111 111101001011010 0101010101001010 011111010100111 0111111111110110 010101010100001 11110101010101 11010101110111 1101010111001010 11010111010101001 10010110010011 001111000101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, they are repeated.
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