This is an analysis of the poem To The Memory Of U. P. Vrevsky that begins with:
On dirt, on stinking wet straw under the shelter of a tumble-down barn,
turned in haste into a camp hospital, in a ruined Bulgarian village, for...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb Xacb deeX fdghX ccf a XbXgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,5,3,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110010001011 101000111000100100101 100111110010 11110111101011001 10111101111111010 1111011001001011010 0010001010011 11111000111010010 10101010000010110011 10111111010011011 110111111111 01101111110011010 11110111011010011 00111011010010100101 1111110101110100100 1001110100100010 11010110100100100 110111101110111010 1 11110101010101 1100001111111000110 11011111011 101110001010111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, had, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines had is repeated).
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