This is an analysis of the poem On The Photograph Of A Corps Commander that begins with:
Ay, man is manly. Here you see
The warrior-carriage of the head,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXb acbcab daXade ffeffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 010010001 11010001 11010111 0100010100 110101 01010000 01010110 01010101 110010101 0101010101 01010111 110100101 10110111 01010101 10111101 10110101010 110101 10110101 11100101 010101101 11011101 11010111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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