This is an analysis of the poem The Vindictive that begins with:
How should we praise those lads of the old
Vindictive...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cDD ecff gchh hXii cccc acaa jckk jjadlchh ecll cXdd amgg amgg amaa amnnXbcDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111001 010 1111001 1011 011101 1000110010010 10110001001 01010 1101110 101100111010 101001011101 0111 0100111 1111001101110 0110100101101 1111 111111 10111101001111 1010011101111 11010 1111010 11110111010111 1111001101111 01011 0101110 1101111111010 110110101001 1101 1110101 110101 10 1 101 10 101100100111 1001 11010001 0111001110110 01111100101 111100 1101010 11001110011100 011100100101 1001 110101 1101110010010 110111001011 11010 01110010 1110111101110 01101101001011 11010 11001010 110111001010 01110011101 1111 101111 101101010010 10010110101 1111 111101 111111001010 1111001 1011 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, the, nelson are repeated.
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- summary of The Vindictive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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