This is an analysis of the poem Knowlt Hoheimer that begins with:

I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
When I felt the bullet enter my heart ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbaXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110010010101 1110101011 11111111101 1100101100 0101001110010 1001010101 101100101001 1010100 1001110 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, of are repeated.

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