This is an analysis of the poem Minden Day that begins with:
All morning rang the gardens where grew the roses sweet
With sound of drum and bugle, and tramp of marching feet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010110101 0101110110101 11110101110101 11010100111101 110010110110101 11001110011111 10101110110101 0101010100111 01011101100101 1111110011101 110010101011101 111110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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