This is an analysis of Monument by Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin.

I built myself a monument, eternal and miraculous,
It's higher than the Pyramids, than metal it is harder;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb bXac XddX XXXeXedcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1111010001010100 010101001100010 1111010101 0101100100 1111010101110 0101100101 110111010 1111110001 1101110011001 110110110101 1100010101 100100111101 1101010101 01010100100 010101000100 1001010101 1111011101 0111110111 1011010101 01010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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