This is an analysis of the poem Oh Albania, Poor Albania that begins with:
Oh Albania, poor Albania,
Who has shoved your head in the ashes?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdeXbeb Xcfgdghc ifjibbee bfXXXhiXdcgbbf bXbjeXbX ebaefe klcb geef cdlX Xbbkff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,14,8,6,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010100 111110010 1100110 010011110 111110111 01101101 1111101 01010001010 001010110 10010010 101011101 0010011110 010101011 1010011011 01010100111 01001010011 10111001010 1110101010 101010011111101 11111001 011101101101 111101111 10110101101 101011101 101101011101 1101010011010 01001110110 000101011010 1110101101010 11111101110 111110111 1111010111010 0110101011 00111111 101001111101 1111010111110 11110101110011 0100101110 1010100100 1110110111 111110 00100101101001 101110 10100110001001 1011101 101000111111 101001110011 1111010100 1011010110 1011111100 1110110100 10011011010 11010100100110 1010101110101 11010101 11010010111 0010101100100 001010110100 11111011 111010 0101000101 111101001001 010010010110 11111010101 1110111 0100010001000 0110100 10110110111 001110111110 11111111101 111111111010 11110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length 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; and, with, you, your, ', 'i, some, others, nor, neither, has, no, our, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, some, neither, she, let are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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