This is an analysis of the poem The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten that begins with:

All winter long you listened for the boom
Of distant cannon wheeled into their place. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd aeae eeXe ebeb afaf gXgX hihi Xfbfb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 0101010011 0111010101 1101010111 1101010101 11001110101 0111010101 1111111101 1111110101 00100011101 0111001101 1101010101 0101010100 1101011101 01001010101 1111010101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010101 0001010111 0100010101 00101001111 0101010101 0100010101 1011010110 11110101100 0101010001 10010111100 1111010001 1110110001 1101111001 1101010100 1111010101 0101010111 1100110001 0111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, other, no are repeated.

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  • summary of The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten;
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  • history of its creation;
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