This is an analysis of the poem Victor Galbraith. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:
Under the walls of Monterey
At daybreak the bugles began to play,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaBaaBX ccBccBX aXBaXbB ccBccXB ddBdXXB eeBeeXX AaBaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 1110100101 1011 0010010111 10011101 11011 1010 11100101 11010101 1011 11110101 11010101 11011 1010 1110111101 111010100 1011 1110010111 101111001 11001 1011 110011111 110111101 1011 100111011 0111111101 11101 1011 11100111 1110100101 1011 0101110101 1111111011 0010010 1011 11111101 1010110101 1011 011110101 11110001 10101 1010 10010101 110100101 1011 1010010111 010010111 1001 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, looked, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The poet repeated the same words ', galbraith at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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