This is an analysis of the poem Poland - Italy - Hungary that begins with:

In the great Darkness of the Passion, graves
Were oped, and many Saints which slept arose.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaaabbbXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0011000101 01011011101 1001010111 0111110111 1101000101 0111010111 0101010111 01010010001 1111110101 0101110111 0111011111 10010101100 0111110101 1100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; which is repeated.

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