This is an analysis of the poem The Silent Victors that begins with:
MAY 30, 1878,
Dying for victory, cheer on cheer... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aab c dcdc bebe fbfb gaga chch dbdb cici deXe X cbcb hjij kfkf dldl hdhX dfdf hdhd X idid chch mjmj ffff fbfb hhhh adad dkdk bbbb X djdj ebeb bcbc cdcd dcdX jcjc fafaXdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111 101100111 1010101 10111 1 1101110101 1101010101 1011010111 110101 1111111101 0101110101 1101010101 110111 1101001111 1101011101 0100010101 010001 11001110101 110111001001 0111110001 110101 11011100101 01010110101 1101010101 010111 0101000101 0101100101 1101111101 010011 01010011101 01110101001 0101010101 011100 0100010101 0101110001 11010111000 110101 1 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 010101 1101010101 1111000101 11001000101 010101 0101100111 1101000101 1100010111 110101 1101110111 11010001011 1111010101 100101 0111110101 01010111001 1101010101 1101100 1101010111 1101010001 01000100111 110111 1111110101 1111010100 1101010100 110110 1 1101110101 0111110011 11110100101 110111 1111010101 1101101101 1101111101 000101 0111110101 0100110001 1101010101 110101 11010100101 11010100101 0101010101 110101 1101010101 01010010101 1101100111 010001 1101011100 0100010101 0111010101 110011 11110100001 01000001011 1111010101 010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 010001 0101010001 1101010101 1101110101 011101 1 1101000111 0111011101 11000101101 0101001 01001110101 1101001111 1101001101 110011 1001001101 1101010111 1001010101 110101 0101011101 1101010101 0111010111 011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011001 010100 1101010001 1101110101 11010101001 110101 1001010101 1100110101 1101011111 111101 1111001111 01010100101 1101010001 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 38
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 137
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of, to, in, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that, be, your, and are repeated.
The author used the same words when, the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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