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

The vomit of the war - the feast of the October!
From all this wine, that desperately stinks,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac cdbd XcXb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100010100010 0101110001 11101101110 1101010011 01111101010 0101011101 01011100110 11010111001101 01111100101 11111111 110111001101 010101011 010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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

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