This is an analysis of the poem The Forlorn Hope that begins with:

One saw the coming doom and was afraid,
And said, 'My friends, the cause for which you dare ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbX cXdX deXX edcX aaXa ffXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011101 1111011111 0111010111 111101011000 01011100111 10110100111 110011111 1111110011 1101011101 0101011111 0101110111 1101001011 0101010101 1111110101 0110111101 01011110101 0101010111 0101010001 1101111001 1111010111 1111111101 0101010101 0111110011 1101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ', he, his are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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