This is an analysis of the poem The Hanging Of Levski that begins with:
O you, my Mother, my Native Land,
Why is your cry so sad and heart-rending!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XbXb cbXb dddd bcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111101101 1011111110 111101001 1111101010 1111111110 0110101010 11011101 00101001010 111110101 0101011110 11110100 10101010 01010111 11110101 11011101 10110101 01010101 11010001 11111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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