This is an analysis of the poem Athena that begins with:
Force of reason, who shut up the shrill
foul Furies in the dungeon of the Parthenon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ebd bab afa fdfXedbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101 110001000101 11000011101 0101110101 10101010101 110100100101 1111010101 01010100110 0010101101000 10010100011 0010101101010 10010101010 00101111100 1101101010 01001110 1110101011 10100010101 0100111111 0111000101 10011101110 11111010111 0100110101111 1101010001010 100101110100 1011000100010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, we are repeated.
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- summary of Athena;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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