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!…

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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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