This is an analysis of the poem Those Foreign Engineers that begins with:
Old Ivan McIvanovitch, with knitted brow of care,
Has climbed up from the engine-room to get a breath of air;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aaXX aacc ddee ccff aacc ccfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101000010101 11100101010101 11010111010111 100101011100101 01010001111101 11010101111101 10111111110101 1101000111000 11010101110111 11000101110101 01110101011111 110100101010101 11010101111001 01010101110101 01011111110111 0101101010101 11010101011101 01110101010101 01110101010101 11000101010101 10011001110101 110100011101 1011110111111 11011101110101 11000101011101 11110101110101 11010101110111 11010101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, and, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, his are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.
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