This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph on General Gordon that begins with:

WARRIOR of God, man's friend, and tyrant's foe
Now somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001111101 1111100110 1100111111 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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