This is an analysis of the poem The Wind(Four Fragments Concerning Blok) that begins with:

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Who’ll be honoured and praised,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabc dcXc deXb fbab X abdb ghaa adah iejf X AKfk abaX ld daKK ddiibXl KKAK X eaba keke bbbf kjkj gdgdXibib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,2,4,7,4,1,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1010011 101101 110111 01010101 0101011 011111 001111000 11111101 11100111 01001001 1111011 1011101 01011111 011011 1101010 1111111 1 101101101 111001011 1100100110 101001011 11101101 1011001001 01011101 10100111 1111010 100100010 1001111 0011010 1110101 11011 00110100 0010101 1 111 1011101 01001 0010101 1010101 1110111 010111 011101 1011101 111001 10101001 110011011 1111111 101001001 1111001 1111101 1100011 1001011 11010101 110101 1010111 1111111 101001001 111 1011101 1 001010010 110101 11001010 1010111 11001001 1011010 10100101 01011110 1011011 1010011 010001 10011 10100101 01011110 0110111 01011110 1101001 0101001 11101000 110110 1111111 010010010 11101111 1011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wind, his, and, in, wide, at are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, to, in, it, the, over are repeated.

    The author used the same words that, blok at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Wind(Four Fragments Concerning Blok);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
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