This is an analysis of the poem We Will Still Fight On that begins with:

What an insignificant trifle may sometimes transform the whole man!
Full of melancholy thought, I walked one day along the highroad....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X aaX XbX cdc Xb ddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,3,3,2,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11101001010101011 1010101111101010 11101101010101011 101110011110110111 01100110111000010 1010010111001001010 01001011011000101110 0101100101100 10001100101110100100 10101010110100011011 110101010101010010 11111010010100110 010010110100 111111101011101 1101111101111101011 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of We Will Still Fight On;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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