This is an analysis of the poem The Gods Are Dead that begins with:
The gods are dead? Perhaps they are! Who knows?
Living at least in Lempriere undeleted,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXba abab aXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0111011111 10110101000 0101010010 11111101010 0111011101 1111111101 01010111010 1101110101 0111 0101010101 11010101110 10010010101 10110100111 10110101010 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length 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.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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