This is an analysis of the poem The Stand Of Wilson's Patrol that begins with:
Beside the Shanghai river,
Alone with the Veldt and sky,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcbdb XeXeae efaXXf XfdfXf ebXbabXAecefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 0100111 01001001 10100101 01001110 10100111 1001110 111111 01011110 1111101 0010110110 0101001 0111010 1101101 111010010 101001110 10101110 1011111 1101110 1010101 01001010 1110101 10010010 101000101 01001010 111111 11101110 1011001 101101010 110011 0101110 010101 10101001 110111 001001111 00100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of is repeated.
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