This is an analysis of the poem A Polish Insurgent that begins with:
WHAT would you have? said I;
'Tis so easy to go and die,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXX acaddc bebeff dgbXgd cdcddd cfXhfh iiaajj ghddhg hhiihXbbkddkd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111111 11100111 1110111 001001101010 11001001010 10111111 11100111 1110110010 100111 1001001 0100111 100110010 111101 10111111 101111 101111 0010101 010011 1011101 10111001 101101101010 1100101010 111101 1001001 11111110 1111111 111110110 0101101 101101 0101001 11001010 111100111 0101001010 1001001 11111111 1101101 11111001 101001011 0100111 0111111 0110101001 111011 1110111011 1111111 111001 1100111 10111111 11110011 11101110101 0110001010 1111111111 100100101 10111101 00101001010 1110111 1111111 111110110 011011111 1111110101 111111010 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, where, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'tis, where, they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fair connects the lines.
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