This is an analysis of the poem The Gold Star that begins with:
The star upon their service flag has changed to gleaming gold;
It speaks no more of hope and life, as once it did of old, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbccddefe ffcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011101110101 01110111110001 110001011100101 11010111111100 11111111110111 01110111011101 11111101111111 01011111010111 11010101011011 11110111010101 01010111110101 0101111111011 1 10110111110101 11010101011111 00011111111111 00010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, he, i, and, this, for, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, this are repeated.
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