This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier that begins with:
Yes. Why do we áll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless
Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the greater part, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cacaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111100010111 1111111100101 111111110001 110101010101 1111000011011 0101110101001 110111011101 110101001101 1111111101001 101110011111001 1111011111111 111111011111 111111111111 011101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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