This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet that begins with:
Comrades of risk and rigour long ago
Who have done battle under honour's name, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbb accaX ddddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110101 1111010101 1101111101 1111010101 1111111100 1111111101 0101010100 1001011100 11010110011 1111110111 1111010100 1010100101 10110101101 11011110001 11001010001 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; laugh is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words laugh, and are repeated.
The author used the same word laugh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sonnet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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