This is an analysis of the poem Franklin that begins with:

No drum-beat nerved them to the fight;
They heard no bugle blare:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababab Xcdcdc efefef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100001 111101 11111101 110101 10010101 1101 11110100 011011 11110100 111101 10010111 1111 11011111 011101 111100111 1100111 01011101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, they are repeated.

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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