This is an analysis of the poem The Eve Of Revolution that begins with:

The trumpets of the four winds of the world
From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXbabbbbaabcc dedededeXfeffegX Hfhfhfhfbbfiifjj dedededkaaebbell mcmcmcmcjjcnncll gdgdgXgdjjdggdbb bdbdbdXdaadbbdgg Hbhbhbhbggbffbnn oeoeoeoekkennekk kakakaXappaddagg mgdgdgdgbbgaaXbb jglgjgjghhggggkk Hdhdhdhdbbmjjdaa bebebebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100011001 001001110011 01100011100 0100111111 10100111100 1101011101 1011010111 1101101101 110111 101101 0101111111 101101 111101 11010101100 11000101 111011010101 1101110101 0101010111 1111010101 0101011111 110100101101 1111110101 01100101011 0111010111 1011010 110111 01001000111 101101 110111 1111111111 11010101 1101010111010 1101001111 0101010011 0111110111 1101111111 1101110101 1101110101 0101010011 0111011101 0101010 10101010 1100011101 101101 0111001 1110111111 10111111 1010001110101 0101010001 110100100111 11110010101 0101010101 1101010111 110000101111 1101010101 0101010110 111111 111101 1101011101 100011 110101 1011010101 11011101 0100010011101 110101011010 101101100101 01011101010 1101110101 11010101010 1101010001 11111101010 1110011111 111101 011101 11110010111 011111 011101 1011010101 11010101 100011010101 1111111011 1100110101 1111010111 1101110111 100110101 1101101100 0101011101 1010011011 011101 010101 0110111001 111111 111111 1001011111 11110101 1001100111001 1101111111 1101111011 1111111111 10111011111 0011010111 1001010101 11111001100 1001011111 111111 110001 1101010101 110101 110111 01011110101 11011101 11010010010001 1101001111 0101010011 1101010101 11110011101 1111111111 11010011001 1101111101 01110001011 110011 111011 1111111101 110111 1001111 1100111111 11110111 110111010101 100111001001 1111010001 1001010100 1101011101 0101010111 10010101101 1111010001 10111101001 1101010 1111010 1101110111 111111 011111 1101111101 110110010 11010011111010 11110111010 1111101101 11110111110 1111010101 1111001001110 11011100011 10111111100 0111000111 100101 111111 1101010101 101101 111111 1111011101 10111101 110111010111 11111100100 0111110111 0101110011 1011110011 010010010101 1011010011 111101100100 1000111111 1101011 1001111 1011011111 011101 011101 1111111111 11110111 1111111011101 11010011001 0100110111 1111110 1011101010111 11011110011 1101111101 0101010100 1111111111 001111 011101 01001010011 001101 1101011 0011111101 1111110010 1111111111010 1101001111 0101010011 1101010011 0111011110 1111001111 1101011111 1101110101 0011010101 010111 100101 0111110100 111101 1100111 1011110111 10111111 011111010011 1111010011 11110010111 1101100101 1101101111 1101010101 1101010101 110100011001 10110011111 111101 11111 1011010101 110111 110100 0011011101 10011101 111101011101 1111110111 111110001 1011101101 1111110101 11110011111 0111011101 0100110111 1011110011 011011 010001 1100011111 010101 110101 0111110001 01010101 111111010001 11110111001 1001010100 1101111001 1111100001 1101011111 01010011111 1111011101 10001010011 110011 101101 1101110111 111101 101101 1011010101 11011101 1101011011101 11010100111 1001010111 0111111101 11111100001 1111110100 0101110101 1101011101 1110110011 111011 010011 1111111101 111101 111111 1111010111 10011101 110101001111 1110110111 11101010111 0111011101 00101010111 0101011101 1101111101 1111000100 0011010001 1101001 111100 1100101101 001101 101001 0111111101 11110101 111101110111 1001110111 1101110101 1111110011 1111110111 1101011111 1001011111 1111111111 11111111011 011011 111111 0111111101 1111001 1000101 1111110111 10110001 1101111101111 1101001111 01010100011 0101010011 1010011111 1001010111 01001110101 0101010111 1011010111 111101 001101 0101011110 110111 1111110 10111100100 11111111 011101010011 11011010001 0100110011 1001110101 110010100101 0111110001 1011110001 1111010011 1111010110 110101 1101101 1111011111 111111 110111 11111111111 11111101 111111101111 1111111101 11110111010 0100111110 11010100010 1111110111 01111100101 1011111111 1011111101 110101 111111 111101001110 111111 111100 11111101010 11110101 111101110111 01010111111 1011011101 11111001011 01110001001 111110110001 11010101111 11111101111 1111011111 0011011 101111 11110010011 110101 110101 11111110111 11110011 110111110011 1101001111 110101011001 11110101101 11011011101 1110011001 1100011111 111111001001 0101001111 111111 111101 1101010101 1110001 0101000 1101111101 10011001 110001111111 110010101111 1101110111 11100011001 1101011000 11110101001 110001101 1111011111 010011110001 110111 110111 1111110101 101111 110101 1011010011 11110111 11011011000101 10101111111 01110010111 1011111101 110101101001 0101010111 1101001001 1110010001 1110110101 111101 111101 1101010101 111111 111101 0101000111 110101011 111111011111 1101110101 11010111101 0111010101 1110010101 1111111101 1101010101 11111100111 1111011111 111101 010011 111000100111 110111 111101 1101110111 01100101 1011011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 458
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and, first, to, o, light, thy, live, who, her, with, no, for, we, how, thee, what, that, into, in, free, dead are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, a, the, and, o, live, who, what, whose, dead are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase earth connects the lines.

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