This is an analysis of the poem Many Soldiers that begins with:

The idea danced before us as a flag;
The sound of martial music;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXcdeefcXddbaXcXdXfXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101011101 0101010 01010001 0100011101 01010111 01010010101 110100110011 101010011 110010101 11011101010 111101101 110100101 0111110 01011101 0101010 11010101010 110101 11010111 1000101 11010101 11110101 11010101 00101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 817
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Many Soldiers;
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