This is an analysis of the poem Student-Song that begins with:

When Youth's warm heart beats high, my friend,
And Youth's blue sky is bright, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdC aeaedcdC afafbcdC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 111101 11011111 110101 10111101 110111 11111111 011111 11010111 1001101 11010111 110101 11111101 0100101 11111111 011111 10010011 110111 100010111 010101 11011111 111101 110010101 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; youth's, and are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word wine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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