This is an analysis of the poem Petrograd that begins with:

And there was stormy silence in that city,
A silence of the unborn where it moved...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeafeXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 11110100110 0100011101 0101010110 100101100111 0101000111 1000111101 1011011101 01101010101 0111011111 1000010100 0101010101 1101110101 1001010100 110001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; that is repeated.

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  • summary of Petrograd;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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