This is an analysis of the poem Fears that begins with:
Fears are dying out in Russia
like the ghosts of bygone years, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc debb faff fafb dXXf eeea XaXa bXgg afXc aaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11101010 1010110 1101110111 11111101001 110100011110 10101011 111110101 1101001001 100011100100 11110111 111011111110 10111111101 011010101 0110001101 010101001 0101001101 1100101000100 01001111010011 11001010010 010101001111 101010100010 1010001011010 1111010001 01010001 1010101101 110101001 1110110010 101010100 1111001001 001001011010 01001001011001 0100101111001 0100100100010 1110010101 01001011010 110101011001 111111 1110110111 1110111100 01011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, of, what, fear, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines untruth is repeated).
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