This is an analysis of the poem One Day's Command that begins with:
The plumed staff officer gallops
Along the swaying line,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXa cbdbXb XbebXb fgcgeg dhahfh gdXadaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110010 010101 11110111 1010101 101010100 1100101 0100100100 0100101 101011011 1010101 01011010 1011101 1010100 1100111 00101110 1011111 1010011 0010101 1011010 010111 1111010 100111 10101010 111101 01001010 001101 01101010 1100111 11101010 010111 01 1 11010 1100111 11011011 110101 11001010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of One Day's Command;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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