This is an analysis of the poem A Russian Song that begins with:

Lace and roses in the forest morning shine,
Shrewdly the small spider climbs his cobweb line....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee Xff ggXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,3,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11100010101 10011010111 11100110101 10101110111 00001010111 00101010101 10101000101 10111010101 11101110101 11001010101 11101010 101 10101100101 10100010101 10011111111 101001110111 10100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ah is repeated.

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  • summary of A Russian Song;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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