This is an analysis of the poem Ragnarok that begins with:
Our Trojan world is polarised to mourn;
To dream and find a black spot on the sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa Xbb ccc ddd ddd eXe Xff ggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010100001 0111011101 1101111101 010100101001 0111111111 10010111001 0101010100 110001010100 1111110100 01011101010 000111111010 01111001110 10110101010 100100110010 110001011010 11101110100 1101010101 1100110100 11011000 01011101000 1101000100 1001001001 1101010011 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, or are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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