This is an analysis of the poem After the Last Bulletins that begins with:

After the last bulletins the windows darken
And the whole city founders readily and deep, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cdcd efcf eXXf XgXg cheh aaca Xefc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100110001010 101101010011 1011010 00101001001 10110011011 01100100101 1011010 1110011 1011010101 100111001111 1101001 10110101 1101010101 1101000110 011101 11010111 1111110101 11010101001 111101 11010101 111100100101 1111101111 0011001 11011111 00110101001 0111110101 1001010 11011101 1101011101 0100011111 0100101 01100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, you are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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