This is an analysis of the poem Eland’s River that begins with:
IT WAS on the fourth of August, as five hundred of us lay
In the camp at Eland’s River, came a shell from De La Rey—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbacca ddeedffd ccggcaac eehheffe iibbXddiXaaddaffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010101110011 001110101010011 10100110 00101010 1011101011101001 10101111 01101011 11110111010001 11011101010110 11011100110101 1111110 1111010 111010110011001 0111010 11111110 101010111111101 11010101011001 11010001011101 10101010 10101010 111011110010010 1110101 1001111 101000101010001 111110101110101 11111101010101 11111010 00101010 111111101110101 11111010 10111010 111010101010111 11100101111101 11011101010001 1010101 1010101 11110100111111 1110100 1111111 11111010010101 11010100111101 1101010001011 1011101 0110101 1110111010110101 11001110 11101010 11100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, us, as, they, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, we are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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