This is an analysis of the poem The Vanguard that begins with:
We the vanguard of a nation in the lands of desolation,
We who live and die unknown,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXaca Xacadaaa baXaXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001000101010 1111101 1111101010100010 1011111 1010011011111010 1111111 1110101010010110 1111101 1100101001101010 10011111 1011111001101010 1111101 0010101010111010 1011101 1011001010101010 1110101 1011101010101010 1010111 1010101010101100 1010101 1111011010111010 1110101 10101010100111110 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- 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, of, our, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word vain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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