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

World war had come - and gone. It seemed the end.
Spent, broken, by the last despair oppressed,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacac bbXbdedX aaaaXaXa efXfXaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 1101010101 1000011101 01010101001 0101011111 1111010101 0101011101 1011010101 1101110001 1001010101 1101011110 0101011001 1101010111 1111111011 11110100101 01010001010 001110101 1111010111 1101110101 1111010111 1111110110 1101010001 1001110011 1011010111 1111111101 1101110001 1011000111 1101111001 0100011111 1101110101 11110111000 11010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; and, ' are repeated.

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