This is an analysis of the poem The Leader That Was Pushed that begins with:
Once on a time a general whose name is handed down
To the present generation as a name of high renown ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc ddeeffee aabggbhhbccb bbddbbii bbecceXdbaab jjeebbjj aaffXcee bbcbbcfXXjjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,8,12,8,8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010100110101 000110101010101 11010100111101 01001001100101 01001101010101 111010101110101 101010101110111 1010000101110101 1101110110010101 001110100010100 101010101110101 111010101010101 111110100111001 111000101110101 001010111110101 111010100010011 1111001 10100001 111010101110101 1110101 1100101 111010100010001 1110101 1110111 111000101110101 1011011 1010101 11010101010101 01111100011101 010101000001001 1010001011111001 101010100111001 11010001010101 11010111010001 1011000101110101 101110101011101 11100010 11101010 0110100100010101 11001101 0111101 101010101110101 101110 1110101 111110101011101 1111101 1111001 1101110110110101 101011100010001 111001100111101 01010111010011 11110101011101 10011101010111 110010101110101 11011001010101 11110101010001 111010101010001 11010101011001 10110100111101 11110101110101 1010101000101010 111111101011101 11110111010111 101010101110101 1010001 10100101 001010101110100 1010011 1010111 01110101110001 10011101 0110111 1110101001100110 1010111 1010101 101010100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; he, to, they, and, leader, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, they, and, for are repeated.
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- summary of The Leader That Was Pushed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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