This is an analysis of the poem With Deaths' Prophetic Ear that begins with:
Lay my rifle here beside me, set my Bible on my breast,
For a moment let the warning bugles cease; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcD eeeefdfd gdgdadad hihijdjD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010111110111 10101010101 101000101110011 1101110101 11110101010011 11011101110 11110101010111 0011010101 101110101110101 10100010101 11111100110011 1101110011 11111001110001 11101010111 11110101110111 1011010101 110111000100101 0101011101 01010111110101 0101110101 11010101100111 1101110111 111110101111101 1011010101 01111101011111 1100110101 01110101111101 0111111111 1111110010001 1101011111 11111101110001 0011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, they, from, and, old, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word road at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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