This is an analysis of the poem Brock: Valiant Leader that begins with:
VALIANT leader of the little band
That, fearless, forward rushed to victory,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc daa dee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101000101 1101010100 1111010100 11011101001 1101110101 01111111001 0101010101 11010101001 1101010101 1111010111 01010011111 0101010100 10110011101 1111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, still are repeated.
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