This is an analysis of the poem Ezra Bartlett that begins with:
A chaplain in the army,
A chaplain in the prisons,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXccacXXddbcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 0100010 11000110 100100110 11010101001 111011100 110110111010 110101 10100110110010100 10001010 11001011 1010101011 10111001 100101 101110 1001 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, only are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river is repeated).
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