This is an analysis of the poem Feast Of Victory that begins with:

Priam's castle-walls had sunk,
Troy in dust and ashes lay,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefef XghgdcdXidiX ejejfXfkldld dXdgkckcklkl bdbdaXadjckc gegebmbmdddd XlelkkkkbdbX nbnhdedeeeeX llllkmkmbobX XlXljijigkgX dXdXiEIEiEIE lelePOpXPOpX dcdcckckebeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1011101 1110101 1010001 1010111 1010001 1010101 1110111 1010101 01011101 1110101 1111101 1011100 1010101 1110100 10010001 0010111 1010101 10101101 0110101 100101111 1110101 1011101 11101010 1011101 10101001 1011111 1010101 1011101 001001010 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1110101 1010101 1010101 10101010 1111101 0100101 1011101 1010111 0111101 1110111 1011111 1010101 0110111 1011101 10110111 0111101 1111101 1010111 1011111 101010100 1010101 1100101 1011101 1010101 10100101 1011101 1100101 0011101 1010101 10010101 1011100 1010101 110101 10100101 1010101 10100101 1110111 1000101 101101100 110101 10010111 1100101 1010101 1011101 1100101 1100101 1110101 1100101 1110101 101011100 100101010 1010101 00101010 1110100 10101010 1111101 10111010 1011101 1001101 1110101 1010101 11111010 100011 00100101 10010101 1010111 0011101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1011101 0010001 1111101 01101100 10010100 1100101 10101010 1010101 10010001 0011111 1010101 1010001 10010101 1111101 10010001 11101110 10101001 1110101 1011101 1010100 10010111 1011101 1011100 1010101 1010111 1011101 1011100 1010101 10001110 1010101 10001110 1000111 1010111 00101001 1010101 1111100 1010111 00101001 1010101 01111000 10100010 1011001 010101110 1000101 10011101 10010101 10100101 1111100 1010101 1010101 1010100 11111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 156
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.

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