This is an analysis of the poem Lead Soldiers that begins with:

The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions
and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. Miniature rockets... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXa cdXda eebbffaaffggee ahaaeiaX bje c ddeekklcaahhiieehaaeellX hbX bhffXjf ma cXajak lcbbaajjjjiifXkkXadd nXb ma khdaXal XabaXaia nXdahamhh Xca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,14,8,3,1,24,3,7,2,6,20,3,2,7,8,9,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101101001010010 1101101001010110 100011010111010 101001001 0101001011101101110 11000100111110001 11101101100100101 101011011101111 00011111 10101010 10111110 10111101 1010111 1011001 1000101 0010111 1010011 1111111 1110101 010100101 1010111 10100010 00111010 1011010101101010 110100011010100101 1100101010101010010 11110111110111 10011010101010010 01101010111110110 1010110100101110 010100100101000010 0101100101100110101 011001111110011 1010111101010 1100111010 1010101 1010111 11101010 10101010 0010101 1011011 1010011 1110100 1011101 1010101 10111110 10110010 111001 0010101 1001101 1010101 01010101 1010101 11010101 10101110 10111010 0010001 1000101 1111 0110011001001001001 101010110101101 110111001010 10010001001111001111 010100011101000110011 010101011001111001001 101010100011111 011111011111000 11010010110100 00101 01011101100111 0010 01010100101111001100 010010101110101011 1000110111011 1010011010001011110 10010011111010 1111 1010101 10000100 1010101 1110101 1011100 10010101 10101010 10101010 1110101 1111111 1011101 10010101 1110111 01111100 11110101 1110111 1010001 1100111 11111001 1101111 01010010111101011 1011101110110 10010101011010101101 0101000101110 10111 1011101110101001 101011010101110101 11011010011100100101 001111100110111 010101010111100110 0010101000100110 1001010111110001 101001001001111010 11010001100110101 11011101101100101 01010110001100110110 001010100110100100 10010110101110 101001010101101 0101111100101010101 010100101101011 010101101011011001 10010010111011100001 011110010111001010 010110001111001 0010101011111 011111101010 011010010011011010 10101111100010101 0100101101111011010 11010101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, back, forward, then, he, to, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to, with are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, tommy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Lead Soldiers;
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