This is an analysis of the poem The Return Of The Soldier that begins with:
Lady when I left you
Ere I sailed the sea, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 11101 100011 11110 100110 11101 111110 10011 101110 01101 111010 11011 10011 10111 111110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, my are repeated.
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