This is an analysis of the poem The Comrades that begins with:
The angels walk with men in the red ruin and rain,
White and gold, as of old, without spot or stain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXA XabA XabA XaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010011011 11110101111 1100111011111 010101 111010010001 010101010101 1010001110101 010101 11010101111 11101100101 1110110011011 010101 10110111101 10101101111 10010100111010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word men at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Comrades;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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