This is an analysis of the poem Rearmament that begins with:

These grand and fatal movements toward death: the grandeur
of the mass...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXacdaeXcdebfggf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010011001 001 1100101010 101000101001010 110 0010101011 001001010101010100 101011011 10110101110010 011101111 101001001100101 10 11111100110 01010111100010 010 1010010100 01010010110100100 111010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 741
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; in is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the is repeated).

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  • summary of Rearmament;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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