This is an analysis of the poem A Cossack Charge that begins with:
Cossacks they're coming!
The eager hoofs are drumming, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccX ccdaXd eebffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 0101110 11010101110 0101110 0101110 11010101110 0101010 1111110 1111110111 0101110 0101110 01001011001 110110 0101110 11010101110 11000011 0100010 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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