This is an analysis of the poem The Stalin Epigram that begins with:
Our lives no longer feel ground under them.
At ten paces you can't hear our words....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab XX bX Xb bX Xa bXXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011100 111011111 101010101 010010101 0111010 0111001 01101101011 0100011 1001010110 110010011 11001010110 111010110111 11001001111 11011010101 1101010101110 110111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; his, he, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he are repeated.
The author used the same words the, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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