This is an analysis of the poem To Victory that begins with:

Return to greet me, colours that were my joy,
Not in the woeful crimson of men slain, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa baXa bcXc Xddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101011 1001010011 110101010010 1001111101 11011101110 10011010101 1001111101 10101101101 11111011110 100011110101 11110111010010 1001011111 011001010110 111110111101 100101001010 1011110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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.

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

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

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

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