This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier that begins with:
Home furthest off grows dearer from the way;
And when the army in the Indias lay... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110001 1101000101 1101000101 0111001101 11001010011 1001010101 0111011101 1101010101 11010101001 1011000101 1101010101 1011110101 1100010001 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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