This is an analysis of the poem Dedication : To The Memory Of Cecil Spring-Rice that begins with:
STEADFAST as any soldier of the line
He served his England, with the imminent death...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dede XX X XfXf gggX acacXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,1,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010001 11010001001 1101110101 0101001101 101010010111 1001100111 01010011101 1110010111 100111110110 01010110101 11010111010 0111000101 1011010001 1111100101110 1 10010111100 01010011101 1100101000010 11101110011 111110001010 0111111101 110100110010 010110101011 111101001110 0101010110 11010100110 0111111111 1001001101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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