This is an analysis of the poem The Soldiers Of The Plough that begins with:
NO maiden dream, nor fancy theme,
Brown Labour's muse would sing;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdXDDEFFE fgcXgdXdDEFFE egbXXddDDEFFE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110111 01011101 010101 11010101 010101 11011101 010001 110101 1101110 1101 0111 1111010 010010101 011001 11011001 0101110 0101011010 010101 01110101 010001 110101 1101110 1101 0111 1111010 10010111 111101 11010101 110101 11111101 110101 11111111 010001 110101 1101110 1101 0111 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, who are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines plough is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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