This is an analysis of the poem The Retreat From Moscow that begins with:
It snowed. A defeat was our conquest red!
For once the eagle was hanging its head....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcXccaaeeaaff gghhiijjjaakkccllhXllaa aahhjjcaaXXmmkklXhhccnnllaaXhXXejj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,23,34,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100111101 1101011001 11010011001 1101111011 0101101101 10010101001 1111001011 01011010011 0101011001 11101011100 11010001001 1111010101 1001010101 1101010001 0111011001 110101011101 01110010101 1111010101001 1101011111 1101010101 0111011101 1001010101 1101110101 01011101001 1011011101 1101000101 010100010101 010001100101 10010011001 1011010101 1101001111 01110001101 0101001101 11001110101 0011001111 0101011101 1001011111 1101011111 1001010110 01011101101 111111011101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010001 10100110001 11010100001 010111011001 0100011101 0100110111 1011011101 1101001111 1011010111 0111110101 110110010101 1101111111 1111110101 1101110111 101101110001 0101011110 111101010100 0111100101 1011000101 1101110101 1001011101 10011100101 1111010101 1011000101 11011101001 1001010111 1011010111 1001011101 0101110101 1001001101 11 111101001 1001011101 0101001110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1141
- Average number of words per stanza: 204
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, of are repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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