This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xix To Bacchus that begins with:
I saw Bacchus on distant cliffs - believe me,
O posterity - he was teaching songs there,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc deXa XXfg bgcg aahg iXch fXig Xiedf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101011 10100111011 101010011 0110100101 111101111 101001011000 10011110 1011101011 01010010100 01001101001 010010110 1101001011 01010111101 10101011010 01010010 1010010010 10101101001 11101011001 010010010 0101101001 10010100101 01101010010 11110001 1100101010 11100110010 10111101010 010100111 0101011101 1001101101 01101110110 001110101 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, to, you, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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