This is an analysis of the poem A Second Review Of The Grand Army that begins with:

I read last night of the Grand Review
In Washington's chiefest avenue,-... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcccccbcb dddddefffffX dddeccce dddghhhg iiiXjXjk kkkgcccg ddcdblllbXlllbkkkb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,8,8,8,8,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111 010010101 11010101 11111010 111011101 010110111 0100100101 0100101101 1010011001 11011010 11100100111 11001010 1100101101 0010100111 110101111 010110101 010101101 11001010 10100100111 111100101 110010111 1100100101 1010011101 0100110 111110111 1000100101 110101101 1000011110 110100111 101010101 111100101 00101010 1010100111 110011101 011110111 1111001 111100101 011010111 111101101 1101010 111010101 010010111 110100101 01011000 010100101 010011000 01110101 010010010 111010101 110010111 010100101 11001010 1010100101 010111101 110110111 11111110 111110101 0100100101 101101010 111010101 00101010 0101110101 0100101111 101011111 111110110 111110101 111110101 111111101 001001110 10111001001 1111111101 111111111 01010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, so are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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