This is an analysis of the poem The Victor Of Antietam that begins with:
When tempest winnowed grain from bran;
And men were looking for a man,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa XXbbbbaXb ccddeeeaeae ffffaf aaaaaaaaa eaXeeeeeae babbbbbab gaggggggag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,11,6,9,10,9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010101 010011001 010 01010101 1101100101 11110111 1111100111 11110101 0101000101 01000100111 011101011 010 10000100 11100101 010011101 11010001 11010101 10010101 01110101 1111010101 0111110101 010 1111010111 010 10010101 01111111 01010101 11011101 110100101 010 10010111 110100101 010 110010111 01110101 11010101 11011101 10010101 010 10100101 110011101 010 01100110 01110101 010100001 11010101 010100101 10111011 010 10011101 110010111 010 1111111 011111001 01110101 01011001 01011111 010 10010111 11111111 010 11001111 11011101 01010101 11000111 101101001 01110101 010 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the, with are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase recalled connects the lines.
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