This is an analysis of the poem Walcheren Expedition that begins with:
Ye brave, enduring Englishmen,
Who dash through fire and flood, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbacddc aefeXcggc dhfhbcffc ififXcggc Xbbbicaac Xjbjbciic aafabXkkc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 1111011 11010100 110111 1101110 111101 111 111 01100101 1001011 110111 01001101 110001 0101010 010111 111 011 0011101 11010101 110101 110110101 111101 1101110 010101 111 111 1110101 01110100 110101 01110111 0100011 01001011 110011 111 101 00110101 1110010 0010101 11110101 0010011 1101010 11111 101 101 11110101 111100101 110101 11111101 110101 1111110 110101 101 111 10110101 11011100 111101 11010100 010101 1110110 1100110 101 011 0110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, no, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word shore at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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