This is an analysis of the poem I Dream Of Hunchbacked Tiflis that begins with:
I dream of hunchbacked Tiflis,
Where a Sazandar's groan resounds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXaX bXaXb XXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010 10100110 01010101 011001100 10101000 01010110 11011010 010100 110001 1010011 011001 001001001 1001001 1111101 1101 001010 0111100 10101 100010001 110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, in, drink are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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