This is an analysis of the poem Elegy that begins with:
About a year has passed. I've returned to the place of the battle,
to its birds that have learned their unfolding of wings ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXc XbbdXd dddee ddXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111010010010 001111101001 0010 100011110100101 110101011101 11 101001010 01101010 010100101010 1001011000110 10100010010 11110 11010100101010 101001101010 001110 0011110101 111010111111 11111111111110 1111001001010 10111011011000 010101101011010 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, now are repeated.
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