This is an analysis of the poem The Heroes that begins with:
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led:
But as I went through Patrick Street the hopes and prophecies were dead. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffbbXcggaahhaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11001011111010101 1111110101110001 0111000111110101 1011001101010101 11010101111111001 1111111101010101 0101010101011111 01010011010001001 00110011110101010 010101011110101010 0101001111010101 0111011111010001 1111110101000101 01001101010100101 1111110101011101 1101000111010011 1101100101110101 11001000101010001 1001000111010001 0101011101010001 1101000111010001 1100010101000101 11011000010100100 1111111101010101 1101101111100101 1101011101010011 1100010111110111 01010100101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2016
- Average number of words per stanza: 363
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, sweet, are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, the, each, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Heroes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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