This is an analysis of the poem The Russian Tongue that begins with:
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, thou
alone art my stay and support, mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010111011 01111101101110111 111100011011011111 111101010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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