This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Soldier that begins with:

Where the sword has opened the way the man will follow
'Look! they came, the triumphant army!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXbbcXXXbcXXXbc XdadXabXbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100101010 111001010 1011111010 1111111110 1111111110 1111010110 10111011 11110111 1101101110 101111010 1101010110 111111110 111111010 111111100 0001111110 1101010110 11010010100 1101101110 0101111110 1101011110 111100110 0100101110 1011001110 1101101010 1101101110 110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; my, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word soldier at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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