This is an analysis of the poem At the Washing of My Son that begins with:
I ran up and grabbed your arm, the way a man
On the battlefield would recognize a long-lost comrade....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadXdXcXebec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111110101 10101110101111 10110110101 10111011110 01110010110 1001101111 11011110100 111011111 11001110 101011010 1110010000111 110001111111 11101101111 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; and, you, i are repeated.
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