This is an analysis of the poem The Masque Of Forsaken Gods that begins with:

Scene: A moonlit glade on a summer midnight.
THE POET...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a A abacbdceefagf D hgcgicjckbjXeabbgcfhXl A albgggacbc D ai X bbalma b lmcaac X cckkbbbbXXnnccbbXc X oooomhdl m ecceilmi p fafadb p cocfbc a bmlb A cghjeX d aaiiXjjjggccjjieXihcchdaah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,13,1,22,1,10,1,2,1,6,1,6,1,18,1,8,1,8,1,6,1,6,1,4,1,6,1,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101011 010 11010000101 0101110101 111110111 0101110001 10010000101 10010111010 0111011001 10101010101 1101010001 10010000100 0101011101 0011110100 1101 00100 010111 01010010001 1101100101 1001010111 0111111101 11000100110 01010010001 1111001101 0111010101 1001010001 11010111100 0101111101 1111110101 1101011101 110010010001 0101110001 11110001000 1101011101 0111010111 0101110111 0101100000 111111 010 0101 1011100101 1010010111 0001010011 10011111010 11010111010 1011000101 10010111011 0101010101 1111100101 00100 1101010001 1001011101 1 110110111 11110101 110101 01010101 11110100 110111 1 110101 11011100 1001010001 01111001 10011101 1111110011 100 1111 0110101 0111 111101 0101 110001 1111 110101 01000 011100 1111 100101 1101 111001 1101 1101001 1000 011101 010 110011 01010101 11010111 100101 1100100 01110111 010101010 011101 1010 110111 100111 1100111 10010010111 111001 111101 110100 1111000101 01 1101011100 1101011101 11010000111 11110111010 01011101110 0111111101 0101 1101010101 01010101010 0111110101 110110111010 01010000001 1111110111 1 11110011 010111010 11111101 11111101 010 1111110101 0111001101 1001111101 100010101110 1111000101 11011101000 01010 1001001100 01110100 11011001 10010001 01110100 10010100 01110101 11011111 111000101 01110111 10110100 11110111 110010100 01000100 110010101 00111101 10011101 01010101 11111101 01110101 010111001 11000101 110101010 11011001 11011101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 156
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of, and, to, his, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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