This is an analysis of the poem In The Armenian Mountains that begins with:
The way was heavy and the night was dark,
And yet we survived ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabD XXXXbD ddebFbD bFeXdbDdcdefd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010111 11101 11011 10101111101 11011 0010010 11001110 1101 1001 10110110 01101 0010010 1101 0101 001010 11110 1101 01111 0010010 110110 1101 1011 00101 100100101 01101 0010010 1110100101 101001 10101 11001111 1011 010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word highlands at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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