This is an analysis of the poem Bacchante that begins with:
Men say the gods have flown;
The Golden Age is but a fading story,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbab XccXc daada eeeee feefe gXaga aXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 01010101010 1111010 1101100111 01010101010 1001100 11101010001 11101 01010101100 11010100101 01001010 1001110101 1111101 0010100101010 1111100101 011101 1100011111 111101 10111100101 1101010011 010111 1011000101 0101011 10010100101 1001010111 110111 11010100110 111101 0101010100 1001110111 111101 1000101010 011000 0111011101 0111000100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Bacchante;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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