This is an analysis of the poem The Travellers that begins with:
Soldier, are you afraid of the things to come?
Do you dream of the dawn-and the cold sea's heave—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaaaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110100101 11100110111 101110101 111110110 1011 010111 1101001001 10101 101010 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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; and, you, mum are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mum is repeated).
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- summary of The Travellers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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