This is an analysis of the poem Communism that begins with:
When my blood flows calm as a purling river,
When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX dcdceded cfcfgbgb ehehgXge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101010 11100111111 001111111110 11001111101 1011101010 10011010100 111000101110 1011011 10100101110 110101101 11001101010 0101111001 11001101010 1010100101 11001110010 00111001 11110111110 001001101010 11101111010 111101001010 11011111 11110111111 11011111111 10111001 11100111010 1101011011 1111011010 11100101111 111111111111 0010100100 01010101111 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, of, that, when, and, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, out, they are repeated.
The author used the same words when, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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