This is an analysis of the poem In Volhynia that begins with:
IN Volhynia the peasant mothers,
When spring-time brings back the leaves,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa baca Xded bbab eaaf XgXg fccc abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001010 10111101 101101110 100101 111110110 01101001 001011110 0110101 1111110 001111001 111010110 11101001 111111110 0101111 111001010 111011001 11111110 1101111 11001110 100101 101001110 1101001 01001010 0100101 1011110110 01111011 011011010 11011101 1101011010 101101101 111110110 001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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