This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier's Christmas Eve that begins with:
In a southern forest gloomy and old,
So lately the scene of a terrible fight,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbccddeffe egggcccababhh agagbffbbii ccjjfffbbababb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,11,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101011 11001001001 0100100111 0100101 1110011101 00100110101 101011111 1100100111 001011101 111100111 010110101 101101111 10101001 1110010101 010110101 10101 011010101 1010100101 110111001 111010111 1010100101 001111101 1100100111 1010101 1110100101 0110011101 110111101 101010011 110010101 1100101 11101101001 0100100111 0100111011 11011001 1111 111110111 00101 0010110111 001011101001 00101101001 01001 11001 0010110101 00101010001 111010111 111100101 010110101 1010101011 111001 111101111 0100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
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