This is an analysis of the poem Of Great Humanistic Deeds that begins with:
The last of a glistening feasting,
Eye popping as is visioned, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa bcdXd ccXcddda ebXa dXcaXbc XdacXfXe faX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,8,4,7,8,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010010 11010100 1 01110100 11010101001101 110 1000101010 001010100 101010 1100111 1010110101010 110001 100100 10101001 101001 110001 1010 11111 10101000 1010100110 11000101 01111 10100010101 1010010100 0010100010101 10101 00010001 101110010 11100010 0110101 111001 1101110001 110101101010 100 1010100 110101000111010 1110100100110 001011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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