This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Brigade that begins with:

We who are gone from the lands that are dear to us,
We who were merry in days that are dead,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdededcfcfgcgcabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111101 1101001111 111110110101 1101111011 1010111100100 1001111111 101101110100 1001111111 100100101100 1001001001 100111100100 1001101001 111111111111 1001101101 100100101111 1101011111 11111011110 1011011111 10011110110 1101001001 111110111101 1101111001 100101100101 1001001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1096
  • Average number of words per stanza: 223
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, that, and, us are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, shall, hope are repeated.

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