This is an analysis of the poem The Heirs Of Stalin that begins with:
Mute was the marble. Mutely glimmered the glass.
Mute stood the sentries, bronzed by the breeze....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabaadeXebXfgchachceiaidXgcXXjfchhcbXcaaXXjf X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010010001 110101101 1101110010 111101 11111010101 100101010010101 110110011 101000111001 1101110000100 10101011 111011010111010 100111110001 111011011 11010011000100 0101100101001 11100101001 101001 10110011101100 010110010111001 10100111001 0010011001001001 1111100 10011010 1100111001 11110100011 11111010111 11110010010010011 1110101101 1101001010110 10011010 01101110101 11011101111111 1101001010 1101101010 100111000100 1001010110011 1001110101110 111110011 1101011010 110110101010 1010010101 1101001010100010 010010010101 1111111101010 1101101 1011011001010 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1079
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; and, past, we, honestly, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mute, and, he are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase honestly connects the lines.
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