This is an analysis of the poem Oh, Banquet Not that begins with:
Oh, banquet not in those shining bowers,
Where Youth resorts, but come to me, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac adadaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011010 11011101 1101001010 111101111 111111101 110010101 11010100 11011111 110101001 11010111 11010101 01110101 11110101 010100101 11010101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; for, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, our are repeated.
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