This is an analysis of the poem To Day that begins with:
Has the line of the Patriots ended,
The race of the heroes failed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbb cdcdee fgXgbb aeaehh Xiiijj hkhkffXfdfdaa bibiaa fhfhll bmbmeeXljljjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010010 0100101 1010010100 110010010 111111001 1010001101 0010011010 0100111 111111010 01001011 101101001 10100101 111010010 01101001 1110011100 010101001 01111101 11001001 1111111010 1111011 110110110 1011001 101011011 100101 111111000 11101001 1011110010 1111000 101011111 10110101 101111010 101011001 101101110 101011001 111101001 110100100 1 011111010 01011101 0010010010 01111011 111011001 111010110 1111010010 101001011 1111010101 101101101 111111101 11001101 0011111010 11011011 1011110110 11001101 11101001 1011101001 111111010 100101111 1111010110 01011001 11111011 101111011 110010110 1010110011 1011111010 001001001 101011101 001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, by, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Day;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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