This is an analysis of the poem Favorites Of Pan that begins with:
Once, long ago, before the gods
Had left this earth, by stream and forest glade,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb caca dede edea fgfg bhbX ibib cfcf jaja ekek iiii lhlX ahXh dbdb mgmg enen dedeXbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 1101111101 10111000101 101101 1000101001 1111010101 0111111111 110111 110010100 1001000111 1111010001 010101 01010001 01010110101 1101010101 110101 010001101 11010010111 0101010101 100101 11110011 1111000101 1101110101 100101 11111111 1101010101 11011101001 111011 01010101 0101011011 110010010111 010101 00110101 10011000101 1001010101 111101 1110010001 0100100110110 0111010101 1000010 11110001 0111010101 0110010101 01101 111100101 0100010101 11000010111 100101 11011011 00111100111 10110101010 110101 11011111 100100001001 1111100101 110101 110011111 0111011101 1101000111 010101 11011101 1101111001 1100010111 010101 11001101 11001100101 01001101 110111 11110101 1100111101 100010000101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Favorites Of Pan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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