This is an analysis of the poem On The Star Of 'The Legion Of Honour' (From The French) that begins with:
Star of the brave!--whose beam hath shed
Such glory o'er the quick and dead ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeedd aaffee gghhii ddbbXi jjkkkkXaakkkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 110100111 110010101 11010101 110000101 110100111 10110111 01001111 01001101 11111101 11111101 10010001 11011101 111100001 11011001 11110111 10111101 11111101 01111011 011001001 01110101 11110101 11011100 11010101 11100111 10110101 10110101 110100001 01110010 010001001 10011101 11010101 11111001 11111111 11110101 11010101 11010001 01010001 11000111 11010001 11110110 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words like, and, one, the are repeated.
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