Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth, by John Keats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bards Of Passion And Of Mirth, that begins with:

BARDS of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aAbbccdXeeeXXXffggaXee ccbbgghhdXiijjXaAbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1111111 1110101 1010101 11101010 0010111 00101010 10101010 00100101 11010011 1011001 111111 10111110 10101110 1010111 0111101 1010011 1010101 10101001 1010101 1110100 01010100 1111111 1011101 10111011 11101011 11101110 101001010 1111111 01001101 0110101 01101110 0110111 1110111 11111001 1011101 1010101 1111111 1110101 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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