This is an analysis of Santa Decca by Oscar Wilde.
THE Gods are dead: no longer do we bring
To grey-eyed Pallas crowns of olive-leaves!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXXXa cXXcXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0111110111 0111010101 1001111101 1001010101 1101110100 110111001010 11010100111 1101110101 110100111 1001010100 1111000100 1101101001 1101010111 0111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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