This is an analysis of the poem Comrades 0' Mine that begins with:
If I call, will you hear me, O comrades of mine,
When the sky in the East holds the grey of the dawn, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdbdbefefdgdghihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011011111101 101001101001 101101001001 101111001101 011011111011 111001101011 101001101001 101011001001 011011111001 01011001010 001111111101 111101001101 011011001111 01001001101 011001111111 01011101001 111111111111 001101111001 101011101101 111011111101 011011111001 101111011001 01111001111 101001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1238
- Average number of words per stanza: 245
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, its, where, through are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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