This is an analysis of the poem Tears Of The Fatherland that begins with:
So, now we are destroyed; utterly; more than utterly!
The gang of shameless peoples, the maddening music of war,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabcadcddXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110110011100 010101001001001 011010100001 1011111010101 101110101111 0110010011101 11110101111 10111111101 1111110101101 0111011110101 1111110110101 1111001010110011 1100101110110 1110001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 795
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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 the is repeated.
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