This is an analysis of the poem The Aged Stranger that begins with:
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR
'I was with Grant'--the stranger said;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a BaXX Baba caXX daXa XXca XaeX dacXXbaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100001 11010101 1010111 111111101 111110110 11010101 1010111 11111101 1101101 11111101 0011101 110111100 00110101 11111011 1110101 11011111 1010111 110101101 1111010 110111000 1011101 111001001 0100111 11111101 01011110 11011011 1110101 111010101 1100101 1010111001 1100111 11111111 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my, i, ' are repeated.
The author used the same word 'i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase said connects the lines.
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