This is an analysis of the poem Why Washington Retreated that begins with:
1775
Said Congress to George Washington:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X AbXXaaXX X AacXabdX AXXeaedX AXcfdbaX AXXcXdaX AbabccfX AgcgcacX AagagacX AfbffXXX Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11001100 1010101 11010100 11010010 1010101100 1010111 11111100 1100010 1 11001100 110101 11111101 1101100 10101001100 1010101 11110100 1111110 11001100 10111010 110010100 110101 011101100 110001 00010100 01010100 11001100 10111100 110010100 010001 110010001 111101 110011100 1111000 11001100 10111100 110010101 110001 11011101 010101 110010101 0111010 01011100 1010110 11010101 111101 01010101 010101 01010101 11011100 01011100 1011101 10111111 010101 11011101 110101 11010100 01001000 11001100 1010101 11000100 110111 01011101 010101 10010001 1111110 11001100 10100101 11000101 100101 11111101 1111010 010100011 1110010 0101110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'll, i, a, and are repeated.
The author used the same words said, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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