This is an analysis of the poem The Vision At Shiloh that begins with:
SHROUDED on Shiloh field in night and rain,
This body rested from the first’s day’s fight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbc cdcae fghai fajXk lb bll ceafj lm dei bjbn b agloj XjXn j lplel nfXej Xlhln q nleX oalhe o bllo Xeanb bnlbc j faao lXlfb a llfh m blae a focl Xo ql f lXl ba fnln k lna fi iecap ibgn i acl in alfea ig fek bbqac ela XbXjkn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,2,3,5,2,3,4,1,5,4,1,5,5,5,1,4,5,1,4,5,5,1,4,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,2,2,1,3,2,4,1,3,2,5,4,1,3,2,5,2,3,5,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 0101000111 1011111101 0101010101 1101010101 1111111101 1001010101 1001010101 1101011101 0101011100 0111100101 11010110100 1101010111 0101010101 1001010001 011100111101 1101000101 1011000111 1101101101 11010010100 0001010111 1001001101 01110101001 11010111001 1100110111 1101010111 1101010101 0101011101 10110010100 01001011101 11001010101 11010100101 1111110101 1011010101 11010010101 1111110101 0100110100 0101010111 0101010101 0111011101 1101010101 11010110010 1011110100 1101110101 0101010001 10010011001 1101110101 11010101100 11110010101 1111110101 1111001101 1101010111 1101010101 11000111010 1101010011 1001010101 1101010101 10010010101 11010101001 11001110100 1111111101 1111010101 1101010101 0101011101 0111010100 1101110111 1001010011 0101110101 1111011101 1001011100 1011010111 1011010011 0101111001 0011011101 0101110100 111010101 11001111101 110101001001 0101011101 1101111101 10110111000 0101001101 11001110100 1100010101 10010010101 100100010101 1011010111 1001111101 1111110001 1101011111 1011010111 1101110101 1001111101 0111111111 1111010101 1101001110 1101010101 0111000101 1100110111 11111101011 11010001001 1111110101 01010011101 11110010101 01010111011 10010100101 01011101001 1111110101 1101010001 11001110111 1101011111 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1011110101 0110100110 1101011101 01110100111 01001011101 1101000101 01000100101 11110111001 01010101001 0111110101 1111110101 01110101001 1001110101 0100100101 1111101001 0111011100 11010010111 0101010101 0101010011 0111110101 11001011101 1111110101 0100010001 1001010001 1101010101 1011011101 1110110111 0101001101 10110101010 1001011001 1111110011 1111110001 1001110101 1101110111 1111110011 1101010101 1010110101 10110010101 1101001100 01010111001 1101010001 0101011100 11010101010 1111010100 100110101000 0101111100 0100010011 0101011001 1111010101 1011010101 0101011101 1001010001 1110111101 1001010101 10111100100 1101011101 1101110101 1111010100 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 54
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 184
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; his, children, of, s, and, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, strove are repeated.
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- summary of The Vision At Shiloh;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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