This is an analysis of the poem As The Troops Went Through that begins with:
I heard this day, as I may no more,
The world's heart throb at my workshop door. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbcXdef ggbebfXahX iijijihhdd ggieieccef kkghghddef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 011111111 011110111 0101000101 011110101 010101101 10111 00101 011100101 010100101 010110111 010101101 010110101 010100101 010110101 010100101 01110 11111 111100101 010100100 011100101 10101101 010100101 110100101 110111111 111111011 1101 10101 110110111 010100101 110111101 11011111 011111101 110110111 010110101 110100101 10101 01101 010100101 011100101 110100101 010110101 111100111 111101111 111100101 010111101 10101 00101 111101101 010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word piccolo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of As The Troops Went Through;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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