This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of Our Land that begins with:

Songs of our land, ye are with us forever,
The power and the splendor of thrones pass away;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xece fdfd dgdg gdgd ahah idid fjfj Xdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101010 0101010010101 110010111010 11011011001 110110011010 11111011111 11101010110 11001111011 011110010110 01001001001 1100100100110 11001011011 0010110011110 11001101011 0011010110110 01011001011 111001010110 11001111001 111111010010 0111111111 011011011010 111111001111 111111111010 11001011011 10111110010 010101011001 11101100110110 1100111010001 0010110010110 11011101001 011110110010 11011011011 0011110010110 01011001001 1010010110110 101001011101 0110110111000 11011101011 111110110010 11011001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of Songs Of Our Land;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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