This is an analysis of the poem The Burial Of General Craufurd At Ciudad Rodrigo that begins with:

They laid him down, - the soldier slain in war, -
Fresh from the midnight flame, the midnight roar,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdb ccbeccbe ffdgbbdg ffhbffhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 1001110111 0101110100 010111 0110010101 1101011101 1001111111 101111 1111110111 0101010101 1100010101 111101 01111101011 11010001011 1001111101 111001 1110100101 11001111101 1101011101 011111 01110111101 10010111001 00110101001 110101 01011100101 1001011111 1111010011 1100111 1111010101 1010010101 0111010101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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.

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