This is an analysis of the poem The Roll-Call that begins with:
Who hath heard the legions tramping?
Who hath heard the chargers champing?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccbdbdb aaeaaefgfg aaXaaXXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 11101010 11101010001 11101010 11101010 10101110101 111010101010 111010010101 101010100010 1111101 11101010 11101010 11101110101 11101010 111011010 10100010001 1110101110 111010110101 110110101110 0010110 11101010 11101010 11101010101 11101010 11101010 1001111101001 111010101010 1011110111 11110101010 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, hath, seen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, none are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Roll-Call;
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- idea of the verse;
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