This is an analysis of the poem At the Feast that begins with:

There's Prince Diego, falling in a love,
He dozed and he laid his head midst table's stuff,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa bbcc ddddee bbeXff XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,6,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010001 11111011101 1101010101 1101000101 1101000101 110101111 0101010101 0111110101 11010100001 1111110101 111011101 1011001001 110101011 1001010101 1111011111 0101110101 1101010001 010101001 1101010101 0100100101 010111010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, his, and are repeated.

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

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  • summary of At the Feast;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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