This is an analysis of the poem Jack's Last Muster that begins with:

The first flush of grey light, the herald of daylight,
Is dimly outlining the musterer's camp, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cdeX dXcd cfgef hcdcd cidi djklj ljhXj gmem diki cbXcb ececne coco kpnp gdnd fdkd faaa mXhgh amcm fbab caofa Xgflcof aocgo koeo Xhkgk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,5,4,5,5,4,4,5,6,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,5,7,5,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011010011 01011001001 110010010010 1001011011 110010110110 01111001001 110010110010 111101110010 110010100010 11001001010 110010010010 01111011001 110110110010 01101001001 010110110110 10100101100 1 101011000101 100 11011011011 111110010110 01001101001 110110110110 01011001111 110110010110 110001000101 11011111011 111001001001 111111010111 11011010110 1 1111100110100 1001011001 11001101001 11100111100 1 1011010110110 001101101011 1010010011010 11101001011 1011010011010 11101100101 111010111010 010110111101 110010110010 001001001001 1110110010 010 01111111101 00111100110 10 01101111011 110010110010 1101100110 1 1010110010010 1011011111 110010011110 110010011001 0100100100010 01011001001 011010011010 01101101101 111010110010 11101011001 101000110110 1111101111 110110110110 11111011001 1011010011010 11011011011 10110111011 01001001001 11001001111 11101101001 1111100101 10 01101011001 1011110010010 01011101001 1101101110010 101111011001 0111010111110 01101010001 101001011111 11001101001 0111111101 11101011001 1110110011110 01001101001 11011000111 1 111001001001 11001001111 0 1001001101 10100100110 10 0100101111 1 1111101111 101111111111 11101100110 10 111001001001 100101101011 01000011111 111010110011 11001111011 011001111011 11011011111 1011010111010 11011001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 137
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, that, i, her are repeated.

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

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