This is an analysis of the poem To The Students Of The Workers' And Peasants' Faculty that begins with:

So there you sit. And how much blood was shed
That you might sit there. Do such stories bore you?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111111 11111111011 11011101011 1101110111 1100010011 11000100010 01111101010 0111000111 1001111111 1111110101 1111111110 1101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 529
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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; you, and, learn are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of To The Students Of The Workers' And Peasants' Faculty;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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