This is an analysis of the poem The Mobilization In Brittany that begins with:
It was silent in the street.
I did not know until a woman told me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcc aaaaaC ddXXd bdb aaacacee ffXeggg aaXaC X cCC bbX cXc hhh ffXX iii cXcXcCC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,3,8,7,5,1,3,3,3,3,4,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110001 10110101011 1010010111 111111001 1101110101 11011011 11011 1100100101 101001001 1111011 11 1110111 1110111000101 10101111 010101100 10111001 111101100100011 011001010101 11110111011110 11011 01011 10101101 1100101 1010011101 110101 101111011 11010101 111101001 10001011 111011100 1110100101 0010101 111011101 111111 1111011 111010100101 101111111 10111111 11 1 110100100101111 1111111111 1000101 01111111010101 111111101001101 1111101010101 01110001 0110100010110010 010101111111 1100100111101 001111001001 10011011011011 1111111110100101 11001111100111 111100 100 0111010111110111 1111110011111 111110101011 0111010001 011010001110010 110010111 0110110010110101 1111111111 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, beat, drums, of, calm, i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, except are repeated.
The author used the same words and, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, beat, again are repeated).
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- summary of The Mobilization In Brittany;
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- history of its creation;
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