This is an analysis of the poem 1861 that begins with:
ARM’D year! year of the struggle!
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcdefgXfdeffXbcgXbadda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 110111010110111001 11111101010110100 010 11011011011010 1000101110 0110101101110010 01111 11111010100110010 100 1100111110010110 010100101111100100 100010 101110010101011 1010 1001001010110100 1000 11001110101011101 001010 11001010111001011 101010101 11111111100110110 10011 1110011101101 111001101001110 10111001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1278
- Average number of words per stanza: 210
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; year, as, or, your are repeated.
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- summary of 1861;
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