This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier that begins with:
I climbed the barren mountain,
And my gaze swept far and wide...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcBdeae aBcbdfafXfBbBdeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1111111 1011101101 1110111 11111010 1010111 1110111101 1011101 1101110 1111111 1010100101 1111101 11111010 111111 1110111101 1011101 1101010 1111111 1010111101 1110111 11011010 0011111 11100111101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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