This is an analysis of the poem An Imperfect Revolution that begins with:

They crowded weeping from the teacher's house,
Crying aloud their fear at what he taught,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbcbXccdcbeXXffefXdaXbcfc gXgXXXbbfggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 1001111111 1111111101 1101000110 1011000101 1101010101 0101011101 1011101011 1001101101 0101010111 1001110101 0101010111 1101010001 01010101011 0101110001 1111101111 11011100101 1001000101 1100111111 11010101101 11111101001 0101110101 1111111101 11101011010 1101111101 1101011011 1111011111 0101110111 1101000101 10011011100 11011010101 1011101111 0111110101 01010110111 1101010011 0001010101 1100110111 1111110001 10011111010 1011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 893
  • Average number of words per stanza: 171
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of, with, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of An Imperfect Revolution;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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