This is an analysis of the poem The Last Redoubt that begins with:
Kacelyevo's slope still felt
The cannon's bolt and the rifles' pelt;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbcc bbbb aadd aaaa eeaa bbff bbXX aaaa ggbb aaaa hhbX bbbX iiaXXffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000111 010110101 1010110101 1011110111 10010101 010110111 110100101 110100111 110101111 1010101001 1010011010110 110010111 111010101 0111111111 010011101 011011101 100100111 10011111 10011101 110110101 101100101 1010110101 1010110101 111101111 000101110 1110111010 100100101 010110101 111110101 1110100101 0100111101 11100111001 1110111111 110101001 1100110111 110100101 101111011 1001111011 110010101 101001001001 11010111 111110101 1111001001 010110111 10010111 010110101 110101111 1100100101 1101100101 010101111 1110110111 10011111011 100111111 10101101001 00101111101 01111101001 1010110101 111011111 111010111 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, many, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, many are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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