This is an analysis of the poem Two Folk Songs that begins with:
I. THE SOLDIER
(Roumanian)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X BCBCC dede fefe gcgc dhdh i jij Xc a c BCBCC c X FKFKjjX LKLKmmK mKmKnnK lKlK ccK mKmK iok LKLK mXK cKcKkkXXOKOKkkK
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,5,4,4,4,4,1,3,2,1,1,5,1,1,7,7,7,4,3,4,3,4,3,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 100 11011001 10010111 01111101 111001001 01111101 11111010 0111001 01111010 0101001 111010011 10100110 01101111 1110101 01011010 1110101 11010110 0100101 11111010 1111011 111011010 1011111 11010110 1110101 10101110 11101111 11101100 1101111 11010110 1110101 11011001 10010111 01111101 111001001 01111101 1001 100 01011101 11 01011101 11 00100110111 11011111 111 110100110 11 110100110 11 1010110101 110110101 111 01011101 11 111110101 11 101110101 01011111 111 110111110 11 111111110 11 110101011 1010110011 111 011111101 11 011110111 11 1011110111 000110101 111 11110110 11 11110110 11 10111101 11111100 111 110100101 11 010100101 11 011110011 10100100111 111 01011101 11 01011101 11 1110110111 1100100101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word kind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Two Folk Songs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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