This is an analysis of the poem Cleburne that begins with:
Another ray of light hath fled, another Southern brave
Hath fallen in his country's cause and found a laureled grave-...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddee bbff Xccc ggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010111010101 110001011101001 11010101111111 11010111010101 11111111111101 1010101111001 01001111110101 011101010101001 11010111010111 110010101110101 11011101110101 11100101010101 1101011101001001 111111001111111 11010111010101 01011001111101 01111111011110 010111010101101 01110101010101 01010111010101 01111111010111 01001101111101 11110111110001 11011111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hath, no, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hath, no, a are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Cleburne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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