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

Ye in the age gone by,
Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!--...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacacX dedeXfaf gbgbeheh XieXibib XXjbbbbb ababgklk bbbbegXg lgXgibib mnmnjeje fgfXbdbX Xfdfecec gkgkococ babaXaXa dcdXkkkk fafabdbd bebepqpq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 100111 1101011101 1101010101 0011010101 1101110001 110011100001 111100100101 1101000 110101 1011110101 1101010101 1001011011 1101000100 0111000101 11010001011 010101 110101 01010111010 1001000101 01010101010 1101010101 010101101 100101011 0100101 1111010 111101011 11110100101 1111101100 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 110101 1010110 010101100 1011010001 1101011001 01110101001 1111110001 1100010111 100111 101101 1101011101 1111010011 1101010101 0100010101 1101010111 1101101000 100101 0101001 11010101 01010001001 110100100001 1101010011 110100101011 010100101010 1111001 0101010 10110010101 01010001010 1001011101 1101010101 1001100101001 1101000101 010101 010101 1101011001 0101110101 10110101001 0101000101 01010101001 0101010101 011101 001001 0101010111 0101010101 1101010100 1101010101 10011001110 1111010101 0101000 1100101 10110101001 00110011 01101001001 010101101001 1101010101 10111110101 101101 111111 0111011101 1101010101 1101101101 01111011001 1011010101 1101110101 110111 100111 10010011111 1001010001 0101011101 1011110101 111101111 11011111001 110101 100111 1001011001 1100010001011 01110111100 1001110101 1011110101 0101110101 010101 010001 1111010101 1101010101 0111110101 1001010111 1100110101 1010010111 101101 110011 0111110111 1101110001 110010010101 1100110111 01010101010 1111010101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, yon, there, and, i are repeated.

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

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