This is an analysis of the poem Struggle that begins with:
My soul is like the oar that momently
Dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011100 10010010101 1101011101 1100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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- summary of Struggle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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