This is an analysis of the poem The Revolutionary that begins with:
Look at them standing there in authority
The pale-faces, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX aXc Xbd cb ee dfddaXb XX gbdb dggh cbgh iX bci agaj bcd id bafXX dkbl klXdbbhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,2,2,7,2,4,4,4,2,3,4,3,2,5,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010100100 0110 100111001101 110100 100 1001110101011 101110101 110101110100 00100001010 10111001110 0011110110 11110111010101111 0100111101010 11111011110110 1101101111110 101101111010010101001011101010110 10110 11110100100101010100101010100 110010 1001101 01110100110000 100101001110001010010001110101 001111010100011111 01010 11110111110 011 110111011 1111000101001100 1111000100010 11110011010 1111101101 111111110 11010001101 0101100 0111011 11110110 1111110 111010 11011010011100111 010111000100 101101111101 011101001110100110 1011 11111110 11010001001010 10010 01111000100100001 10101001001011101010 11110 11101101011110010100 111011011011111011111 1001111000 110100 10111111111010 111100100100111 1110010 001 10111010 11111010101001 10111100111110 1110010101101 100110 1011110011101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, i, to, that, of, you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word see at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word smash at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Revolutionary;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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