This is an analysis of the poem The Unknown God that begins with:
To learned Athens, led by fame,
As once the man of Tarsus came,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbddedde ffeggeccXhhXddbbbbeebddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 11010101 010101 11010111 101010111 110101 11010101 11010101 1010101 11111101 110010101 01000101 11011101 101101101 1011110 11010101 11010101 1101010 110010101 11010101 111111 10010111 01010101 110001 101010111 01010101 110101 01010101 11000101 010101 1110001001 01010101 110101 111111011 01010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Unknown God;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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