This is an analysis of the poem Populist Manifesto No. 1 that begins with:

Poets, come out of your closets,
Open your windows, open your doors, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdbbXbbcefaXgbcchbibjbbabXcXdbkiiifcjddjddbXbbhkkagbaaakXgXXXablkkXkkkXbladlXdmcnlljeblXkndmlkabbeacaiXblbdlbeeXeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 118,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110110 101101011 1101111 0111 1111 0110111011 110111101 11100011000 10111110 1011011 011110 1100111 11111000 1111011 0101 1110110 111 110010 10001010 0101001 101010 101110 101110 111101001 01010101 0100100101 0100110010 111111010101 111111001000 1111110 1110111 111011011010 01110110010 10010100100 0101010 1011111010 010010010 010101 01110010 100101 0010010010 101111 110110 00110010 01110 1101011 001101 1100101011010 11100010 1001001011 11101010100 01100 111001110 0010100100 11110101 1111111110 11111010 11100010 1111010100010 1101101101110 11100011100010000100 1110100 11110010000 11111000110100000 11101010 110111 1101111101010010100 11101000100 1111010100 1110101100100 111100100 111100100 11101100100 111001001 11100010 10010010 1110001 1110110 10110101 00101011000 101010 0111 010101 00011 111100 1101000 1001 00100111 110111 00110001 111111 1000111100 0100111011 11101010 1110011 1100111 001110100 00110001010 01001010 11001010 010100101 0101010 0111111 1100111 100010100 1010100010 01010 11011100 10011001 0011110 1101101011 01101010 101101101 11010101 0010101001 1101 101101101 011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3965
  • Average number of words per stanza: 675
  • Amount of lines: 118
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; your, hills, and, s, now, for, time, t, with, open, all, you, poets, of, poetry, still are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, no, the, all, where, and, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hills, burning, poetry, poets, it, levels, there are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Populist Manifesto No. 1;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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