This is an analysis of the poem The Struggle that begins with:

In sorrow youth passes, in sorrows and pains,
Angrily boils the blood in the veins;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcddceeffgghhggaXiiddccjjkkXXiiiieXlleeccXjXmmeeejejcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011001011 100101001 100101101 0001101000 100110111 010010011 0011101101 1011001001 010111010 01001001010 010100101 11111111 110111101 110101101 11011011010 0111111110 111111001 010101101 01010101 10010010010 1100101011 010010111101 101010101 0100101111 110110101 010010101 100111001 11110101 0100101011 01011101 11010101 10111001 100101011 1011011010 10110111 1111111010 0101010010 010110010110 0100101001 01011001 0101111110 11111010 1011111 1110101 111011010 110101011 1101001110 1101111100 10111110100 110101001 1111101 10010111 0101001101 011101101 010011011 01000101 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 421
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, how, and, of, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, let, this are repeated.

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  • summary of The Struggle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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