This is an analysis of the poem The Blue And Gray that begins with:

The Blue and the Gray collided one day
In the future great town of Missouri,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dbdc defX aghg hbdb fiji kjkj XlXl eeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110101011 0010110010 101111001101 1110110010 10101111111 1010010110 11101101001 101111110 1101001011111 11000110010 111001101001 010110110 01101101001 1011011110 101111001101 111010010 001001101101 110110110 10100101011 110110010 101101001001 111111110 11101101001 110110110 1110111001001 111110010 101001101001 1010110010 111110111010 100110110 1110010111011 1010110110 1001011001101 110110110 111010010100 1101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; they, as, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Blue And Gray;
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