This is an analysis of the poem On The Russian Persecution Of The Jews: Sonnets that begins with:
O SON of man, by lying tongues adored,
By slaughterous hands of slaves with feet red-shod... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaXbbbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 11001010111 0101110101 10001110101 10100100101 1100110001 110010011111 110010110111 1101010101 1100011101 0110111101 1100101001 11101100100 01110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word most is repeated.
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