This is an analysis of the poem Kitchener that begins with:
This is the man who, sole in Britain, sole
In Europe, by profounder instinct knew... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdXXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0001110101 0101100101 0101011111 1001100001 1101011101 1101110101 1001000101 0111100101 0001110101 0111011111 101010111010 01010010111 10001111111 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Kitchener;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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