This is an analysis of the poem Rebel Color-Bearers At Shiloh that begins with:
_A plea against the vindictive cry raised by civilians
shortly after the surrender at Appomattox_... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bbcdddcccc ccc eefffeffff gXgbbgaaXgffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,3,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010010111010 1010001011000 01010101 100101001 11010101 1111101 1011010011 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010101 11010110 10111101 1010111 11010011 010001001 10111101111 10110111 1100010101 1001010101 11000101 01001101 10010101 10111111 11010101 11110101 111110 101 11000101 1001000101 111101 010010101 0101010111 1111110 1110 11000100101 10011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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