This is an analysis of the poem from The Emigrants: A Poem that begins with:

[Disillusion with the French Revolution]
So many years have passed,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccdcccEcefgbhggfcXcciXXchEhjdjggkchhXciagkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10100011010 110011 1111011101 1101011110 1111110111 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 1001000101 0101010101 0111010111 110010010101 1101111101 1101011101 1011010001 1101110101 1011010101 01010101001 0100110111 0101011101 1101011101 01001100101 1100010101 0100110001 0101001010 0101010101 011100001011 1001000101 0111011101 1101000101 0011000111 01010010111 0111010111 1101010101 101100001110 11001001101 01010011101 1111010101 11110010000 0101010101 0101010111 0101110001 0101010011 100110011110 111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 978
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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