This is an analysis of the poem For The Dead Of The Revolution that begins with:

Death-prone, the bodies
forked in mutiny...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbabccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 10100 01010 001001 11001 00110 1101101 010101 110101 0110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of For The Dead Of The Revolution;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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