This is an analysis of the poem Soldiers Of Wei Bewail Separation From Their Families that begins with:
List to the thunder and roll of the drum!
See how we spring and brandish the dart!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede cccc XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011001 1110111001 1111111111 1100101001 1111101011 1100101101 1111001001 1111111010 1111011101 1011111101 0101111101 1100111001 1111111101 1101111001 1110101011 1101101001 0100111101 1101111011 0111111010 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
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