This is an analysis of the poem The Banquet Of The Supreme Being that begins with:

One day the Supreme Being took it into his head to give a great banquet in
his palace of azure....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab Xc baXc XX b d e eXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,4,2,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101000010101100 010010 101000101001011011 1010 10011000111010100 101001101011111010 0101101000010111001011 01011 10011010110101100100 1000 011100100111010010 1000011101001 10001101010010 101000101010101011 1101010011010111 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, great, had are repeated.

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  • summary of The Banquet Of The Supreme Being;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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