This is an analysis of the poem Santa Decca that begins with:
THE Gods are dead: no longer do we bring
To grey-eyed Pallas crowns of olive-leaves!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXXXa cXXcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111110111 0111010101 1001111101 1001010101 1101110100 110111001010 11010100111 1101110101 110100111 1001010100 1111000100 1101101001 1101010111 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Santa Decca;
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- history of its creation;
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