This is an analysis of the poem The Triumph Of The People that begins with:

LO, the gods of Vice and Mammon from their pinnacles are hurled
By the workers’ new religion, which is oldest in the world;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa ccXa aaaaXaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011100110011 101010101010001 101010101010101 101000100010001 101000101010011 101000101011101 101111101011101 101000100010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 101010100010101 101010111010111 101111101010111 1101010101010111 101000111010001 101010101100101 101000101011111 101011101010101 1010101100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word god at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Triumph Of The People;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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