This is an analysis of the poem The Red Zouave that begins with:
The stars were bright, the breeze was still,
The cicada and the whippoorwill,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbb ccaadd eeffgg ffaaff hhiijj kkeebb lleeii aahhcc jjaajj hhbbhh llccee bbkkeX llffkkbb bbff b X mm bXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,4,1,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010111 001010100 010101 01010101 10010101 1101010011 01010101 11010001 010100101 11010101 1100100101 11010101 11101101 1010010101 101110101 001110101 111011111 0111111 100101001 11010101 11010100 0100111011 101011111 101011101 01011111 1111100101 111101001 11101101111 0011101111 10100101100 110111101 11101001001 11110110101 1110101111 1100110101 11110110111 1110111101 0100111101 1101111101 111111101 11001001001 1101111101 111110101 1110100101 11011111001 11001111101 111001011101 111001011101 111001111 101101011 111001011 11101111 111011111001 1010010011001 111011011011 11000111101 10101101101 11100101101 10111110011 1101111001 101010101 101111011111 1010101011 0101101001 11001001001 0011110101 1010101001 001010110001 111011111001 101001011011 101101101001 001101001101 10100101111 1010010101 11010111 1010110101 101010101 010110101 1010110111 110001111011 1100101101 111110101 01110101 0101110101 111110101 10100111100 1000010001 110101101 1011001001001 10100101011100 11011111001 001010010011
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, his, you, my, and, in, friend, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, why, you are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Red Zouave;
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