This is an analysis of the poem The Undaunted that begins with:
He tried to travel No Man's Land, that's guarded well with guns,
He tried to race the road of death, where never a coward runs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ffee ggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111110101 110101011100101 111000101110111 11100101010101 1101110000110111 111010101110101 111011101010101 101110101010111 11011100010101 111010101010101 111011101111101 001010101110101 11111100010101 111111101111101 111011101010101 101000101111111 111011101011101 111000101010001 101000101110111 001100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, you, you'd, your, once, to, he's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, and, once are repeated.
The author used the same word you'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Undaunted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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