This is an analysis of the poem Bakhchisarai that begins with:
Still vast, but desolate, the dwelling of the Girey kings!
On stairs, in vestibules once brushed by Pashas' brows ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa aXXX bXX XbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110001000101 1101000111101 101101010010101001 1101110101 111111001010 00111110110 110001010101 100100100010 00100010101010 0100010101 100101011001 11101101111 10100101010100 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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- summary of Bakhchisarai;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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