This is an analysis of the poem Flower-De-Luce: Killed At The Ford that begins with:
He is dead, the beautiful youth,
The heart of honor, the tongue of truth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdc efdfefX bbbbgdd hhfdfgd caaccihhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101001 010100101 10111011 111110101 111100101 0101111101 11100001 101111101 10100101 0100101101 101001011 1110010111 111011101 101011101001 10110101 1100110111 101100101 110101111 1100101111 0011110101 1111100111 11011001001 11010101101 101100101 1111001101 11110100101 11100101 111100111 11100101111 110101101 1010100101 1010100101 101011101 010100101 1011101111 111110101 1010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, and, in, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, till are repeated.
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More information about poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Analysis of Evangeline: Part The First. Iii.
- Analysis of Earlier Poems : An April Day
- Analysis of Evangeline: Part The Second. I.
