This is an analysis of the poem The Volunteer that begins with:
Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent
Toiling at ledgers in a city grey, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacXcX daadeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110111 1011000101 1011011101 0111001100 1101011011 0101000101 1101010101 11001010100 1111011101 0110010111 0101011110 01110011111 1101111101 1101000101 1111010111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 751
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; he is repeated.
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- summary of The Volunteer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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