I Don’t Remember The Word I Wished To Say by Osip Emilevich Mandelstam: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem I Don’t Remember The Word I Wished To Say that begins with:

I don’t remember the word I wished to say.
The blind swallow returns to the hall of shadow,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbaX cdXd dede fXcX abAbXcefe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011101 011001001011 11100010101 010101011001 1111010110 0101101010 11011101010 10111001010 011010110101 10011110100 1110110111 00101010100100 1011010000010001 1010101010 111100010010 01011100 101011110011 111011101101 11010011101 1010101001011 00101100101 11010110100 101010011 1100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • 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; to, of, and are repeated.

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