This is an analysis of the poem The Epic Stars that begins with:

The heroic stars spending themselves,
Coining their very flesh into bullets for the lost battle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001011001 101101001010110 1111111110 1101010010101010 1001111010 0010011010100110 111011101 110101001101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Epic Stars;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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