This is an analysis of the poem In Petersburg We'Ll Meet Again that begins with:
In Petersburg we'll meet again,
As though we'd buried the sun there,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefX X dXXXfgdc X fXXggeag X Xgbegefa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101 11110011 1101110 01101 0011001001 0010011100 011011011 00101011 1 0100101011 001010101 010101011001 1111011 1111011010 111010010 101001001 1011101 1 110100110 10111 0100011 001010 10101101 101100110001 10110110 01010110 1 1101100100 0100010010 0111000100 111111101 1111110 00110011100 01010011011 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, a, i are repeated.
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