This is an analysis of the poem Seven Decades that begins with:
At ten I read Mayakovsky had died,
learned my first word of Russian, lyublyu;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcbdbeb XeXfffafgf cheijibiXi cbXkXkakXX edlkhkakik hcagegkgfg jalfXfXflf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111100011 111101010 1110101011 001111101 01010100101 1111010111 111111101 111110101 0101111 1101 11011101010 1101111111 0100101010 1111011101 0111011111 1000111101 1101010100 11001011 101011010 01001 1101111111 0101011101 1111010101 1010110111 101010111 1111111101 1101010100 010111101101 101011 1001 1101111011 1111101111 1111010001 10010101010 1111111111 1010101010 001010101011 10111111010 00101010 1100 1101010111 0101111101 0101110101 1101010101 11100100111 1101101001 1101011101 01011011100 11101001 0011 1101110101 0101000111 1111111111 0111101111 0101011101 0101010100 1101010011 01010100111 01010111 0101 1100111111 1100110011 0101110001 1011001111 0010101110 011111101101 1111101011 1111101101 110111001 011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; week, with, to, and, had, i are repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Seven Decades;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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