This is an analysis of the poem Interregnum that begins with:

Butcher the evil millionaire, peasant,
And leave him stinking in the square....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcacb cbddbb cbebeb cbfbcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010110 11110001 100100100100 11010010 10011010 11111110101 10101010100 11001101 1101011011 110000111 011001001 1111110111 10010100010 1001000101 101011111 1111010101 010100000111 1011111 100101010 1001111101 11010001 0101110011 01110010100 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet repeated the same word war at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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