This is an analysis of the poem Mayakovsky that begins with:

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My heart's aflutter!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabccXd ec Xfedg bhX higi hgX jjjj XgcaXXjdb XXihh jeaib kkfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,2,5,3,4,3,4,9,5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11010 11100011 101010 11101 01111 111101 0111 110010 1111111 111101 1 111111 10100110 111010 101 10 111111 111101 1111 111010 111010010 1100 10110111 1010 1011001 0101101 10101 1111 01 1 11011111 11101001 10101010 11001010100 1111100101 010111101 1000010110 1100011101 1 111100101 001000110100 0110001 11000110 010011 11101 111010 110100110 1110111 01001010 0111110 1111111011 01111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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