This is an analysis of the poem On The Road To Waterloo: 17 October (En Vigilante, 2 Hours) that begins with:
It is grey tingling azure overhead
With silver drift. Beneath, where from the green ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadebedb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 00110010101 0101011001 0111010101 1111010101 1101110010 1001110111 1011110101 0100110101 01101101110 1101001111 1011010101 1101100001 0111101111 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.
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