This is an analysis of the poem Holy Russia that begins with:

CROUCHED in the terrible land,
The circle of pitiless ice,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXdecfgcXdcggcbcehXifccXdfcciajXfhXejXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001 01001001 010101 10100010 101001 100111 0100101 110101 0100111 110001 0101001 00100111 111001 010111 11110101 1101011 111101 110101 1011101 101101 1100101 101100100 010100010 01000101 1001001 111111 1010011 111001 0001010 0111101 101111 001011010 1011101 1101011 101000100 1111110 110111 001011000 00101111 110110 001001001 01001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 238
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, from, and, hour, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, o, of are repeated.

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