This is an analysis of the poem The Unknown Soldier that begins with:
He is known to the sun-white Majesties
Who stand at the gates of dawn. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacaXa daXaefXf XghgXiei XcchdfffXcfbfaddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011100 1110101 1010011100 111111 11111101 110111 01011101 110101 1011011101 10100101 110101101 111101 0111101001 011101 1011010100 111101 11101010 1110101 111010101 00110101 111110101 110111 01110101 111101 11101010 1100101 111011101 110101 1110101001 110111 110100101 1011101 1110011100 1100101 1111011100 110101 11011111 111101 001011111 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; by is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same words he, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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