This is an analysis of the poem The Charge Of The Light Brigade Brought Up To Date that begins with:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward —... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaabXcacccA dddaaaaaaaXaaeeeA bbbcbb bcfffffXcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 10110 100111 10110 001001 100101 111101 10010 100101 1011001 100101 100110 100100 100100 100100 100110 111111 110101 1010111 11110 011011 011100 101101 110101 110101 101111 000101 100101 100110 100111 110111 100111 10010 100101 100100 100101 11110 100101 1001001 101111 100101 110101 11100 101100 110111 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; half, league, cannon, of, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words half, cannon are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hundred at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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