This is an analysis of the poem Sarajevo that begins with:
Now that a revolution really is needed, those who were fervent are quite cool.
While a country murdered and raped calls for help from the Europe...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X a X X a bXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101001011010111 1010101111100101011011 11011001110101011 0010001111011101111010110010101 100001000010111001111011010010110 10100111111010010 00011111010010100010101100100100 11001010110111010011001101110010 10101101101011011010001110010011100100110 1010101011111001011101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 111 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 20
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, nothingness, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word while is repeated.
The author used the same word while at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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