Poem analysis with AI: a plan, figures of speech and meter
Choose a poem or paste your own. The margin shows where the epithets, metaphors and personifications are and how the lines rhyme, and the analysis plan is on the right. The AI asks questions on each point, and the conclusions are yours.
Последняя туча рассеянной бури!
epithetАОдна ты несёшься по ясной лазури,
anaphora, personification, epithetАОдна ты наводишь унылую тень,
anaphora, epithetБОдна ты печалишь ликующий день.
personification: the day “rejoices”, the cloud “saddens”БTry it yourself: Which word in these lines sets the mood most strongly? In the chat the AI will ask why you picked it.
Help me analyze Pushkin’s poem “Туча” (1835). I’m in grade 7. Format – by the plan: background, theme, idea, composition, figures of speech, meter and rhyme, the lyric hero, my impression. Don’t do the analysis for me: for each point, ask me questions and give hints, and check my answers. If I get the figures of speech or the meter wrong, explain how to work them out correctly.
You can attach a photo of the page with the text in the chat. Free on the Starter plan (30 energy units).
Analyze in chatIdentify the meter of a poem
Read the line aloud and find the stressed syllables. If the stress falls on every second syllable, the meter is iambic or trochaic; with two unstressed syllables between stresses, it is dactylic, amphibrachic or anapestic.
Буря мглою небо кроет
A. S. Pushkin, “Winter Evening”Pick a meter – the trainer will show the stresses.
A plan for analyzing a poem: 8 items
This plan works for analyzing a lyric poem at any grade. A short analysis keeps items 2, 3, 5 and 8.
- 01
Background
When and in what circumstances it was written, and who it is dedicated to.
- 02
Theme
What the poem is about: nature, friendship, freedom, the poet and poetry.
- 03
Idea
The author’s main thought in your own words, in one or two sentences.
- 04
Composition
What parts the text has and where the mood turns.
- 05
Figures of speech
Epithets, metaphors, similes – and why they are there.
- 06
Meter and rhyme
The poetic meter, the number of feet and the rhyme scheme.
- 07
Lyric hero
Who speaks and what they feel, and how their mood changes.
- 08
My impression
What touched you personally. No hints are needed here.
Figures of speech in a poem
The colors match the margin notes. The examples come from poems that are studied at school.
- Epithet
- A descriptive word that paints an image
- “по ясной лазури” – Pushkin
- Metaphor
- A hidden comparison, a transfer of qualities
- “Роняет лес багряный свой убор” – Pushkin
- Personification
- Something inanimate acts like a living being
- “Одна ты печалишь ликующий день” – Pushkin
- Simile
- A comparison with “как”, “будто” (“like”, “as if”)
- “Анчар, как грозный часовой” – Pushkin
- Anaphora
- Repetition at the start of lines
- “Одна ты… Одна ты…” – Pushkin
- Hyperbole
- An exaggeration
- “Металлов твёрже он и выше пирамид” – Derzhavin
- Rhetorical question
- A question that does not expect an answer
- “Что ищет он в стране далёкой?” – Lermontov
- Inversion
- An unusual word order
- “Белеет парус одинокой” – Lermontov
Analyzing a poem in grades 5, 7 and 9
The higher the grade, the more items the analysis has. Pick your grade in the form above, and the AI adjusts its questions.
Grades 5–6
Theme, mood, pictures of nature, epithets and similes. A short review of the poem.
Grades 7–8
Adds the idea, the composition, metaphor and personification, the meter and the rhyme.
Grades 9–11
The background, the lyric hero, the link to the era and to the poet’s work, and a written analysis as a connected text.
Poem analysis with hints – free
Starter – 0 ₽
30 energy units. Questions by the plan, finding figures of speech, meter analysis and a check of your analysis are text requests, and they are included in the free plan. For regular practice there is Lite for ₽690 (150 energy) and Basic for ₽990 (200 energy).
Frequently asked questions
How do I analyze a poem?
Read the poem aloud, work out the theme and the mood, find the figures of speech and explain why they are there. Then work out the meter and the rhyme and write down your impression. The AI guides you with questions and checks your answers.
How do I write a poem analysis by the plan?
Go through eight items: background, theme, idea, composition, figures of speech, meter and rhyme, the lyric hero, impression. In the “Written” mode the AI then checks your connected text.
How do I work out the meter of a poem?
Mark the stresses in a line and look for the pattern. A stress on every second syllable means an iamb (stress on the second) or a trochee (stress on the first). With two unstressed syllables between stresses, it is a dactyl, an amphibrach or an anapest. Practice on this page, and ask the AI if you are not sure.
Where do I start analyzing a poem by Pushkin?
With the background and the theme: when it was written and what it is about. For example, “Туча” – 1835, a picture of nature after a storm. Then move on to the figures of speech: in Pushkin they are easy to find line by line, as in the margin notes on this page.
Can I send the poem as a photo?
Yes. Photograph the page of your textbook and attach the picture in the chat – this also works on the free plan. A short poem can simply be pasted as text into the field on this page.
Will the AI analyze the poem for me?
This assistant works differently: it asks questions, gives hints and checks your work, while the conclusions and the text are yours. That way you can explain in class why you see a metaphor in a line and not a simile.