This is an analysis of the poem Resurrexit (June, 1900) that begins with:
The old flag's flying from the rampart,
The old flag's blown upon the breeze,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXABBCcB XddeeX XeeddX XffaaX XaXABBCcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100010 01110101 10110100010 101110101 101001010101 10101010101 111010101110 111001100110 01111011101 11100 1110101 1011101 1000101 1110101 11100 11100 1110101 1110101 1110101 1110111 11100 11100 100101 1010111 0110101 1010001 11100 10111010100 01110101 10110100010 101110101 101001010101 10101010101 111010101110 111001100110 01111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; old, from, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, we, 'i are repeated.
The author used the same word 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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