This is an analysis of The Bacchanal Of Alexander by Robert Laurence Binyon.
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A wondrous rumour fills and stirs…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXcbcbdeXefdgafgX heheieiigigjiggXgX hfXdfdbXbgXgXXddffdbbdhXhghaa XcjjcgddgjkkjXXdd laaldmmdbddXbXmX gmgcmcbhbgXgbbggjjinnihbhbhbb XggggiaaiaooahhbXchhcbaabhddhcchX gkghiXkckmcmhhiiffbbbbjbjbjgX
- Stanza lengths: 19,18,29,17,16,29,33,29,
- Metre: 1 01010111 011001 1101010100 110010001001 010101 1001010101 101101 101010101 101 011010101100 101010111 101110101 11101 10100101 1001101 0010101 1110101 111011101 010010101 110101 1011011101 1100110101 111111 11011100111 1001001 1001110101 111 1111101001 0010111001 101011101 1001 1110101 100010101 1010111 0010011 1111100101 1001011111 111101 010100 1111111111 0011100101 1101110111 111010101 01010101100 011000100101 10010101 1010100 1011001 1111011111 1101101101 1111011101 11010100101 001111 11011101001 1101110111 1001110101 11010011101 11001110110111 1010010111 1101001110 1101010101 0111000101 1101110101 1101001 001111010101 1 11010101 0010111 1011001 0111000 111111101 111011101 11100010001 101100001 1110101 10101110 1010100010 1111101 10111011111 10100010100 1111111111 01010001 11011001 111001001 1010101 0100101 111010101 1010111010 1111111010 101001111 101001111 1110011 1110111 1101101010 1011110101 1101010100 1101100111 111101 11010010101 110101 01010110001 1101001101 110011101 011101 1011010111 1111111001 0101010101 1101110101 10010100100 1010001001 1010111010 11010100010 0111100101 1010010111 1001010111 1101001111101 1011010101 0111010101 10001110001 1011110001 01001101001 1111110101 0101101101 1101010011 1101111111 101111 00010100101001 1 011001 111111 00111011 01001001 101111 11001011 111101 11111111 1011101 0010101 111101 00100101 110100001 11011111011 10110101 110101100 011001 100110 0011101 0110101 111111 101001 111111 00100011 100101 101011101 001001001 11101111 110010111 11111010111 010011111 010101100 110111 11001010 111101 10110111001 1001010101 10110101110 11110101010 0101110111 1110101010 101010111 100101001001 101010111 1101011101 1101110101 1001111101 1111110101 0111011101 110111010101 1101011101 11010000101 11010010011 11011010111001 1101001101 1001000101 1111010111 11110010110001 0101001001 011101 0001110010110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 192
Repeated words/phrases
leave, and, in, our, his, of, thy
Anaphora
that, what
