This is an analysis of the poem The Eumenides that begins with:

Think you we slept within the Delphic bower,
What time our victim sought Apollo’s grace?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11110101010 1111011001 1100010111 10110111110 11110000110 1111000111 1011101101 11010001110 10011000101 1101010101 1101010111 1101101000 1111000101 1001011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of The Eumenides;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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