This is an analysis of the poem Revisited that begins with:
The roll of drums and the bugle's wailing
Vex the air of our vales-no more;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd cefe gaga hiiX hggX igXg gjij gkXk gggg clgl fhah fhch chgh XgfgXigcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101010 10101111 0101001010 010010101 111111110 10110101 10111010100 11010111 11010010010 100101101 1001001110 110101101 10111110110 101011101 1111111110 100100101 110101110 010100111 1101001110 010101101 1101001011 11011101 0101011011 011100101 1101011111 101011110 0101010000 110000101 1001110110 101100101 1011001110 100100101 0101011110 101101101 1101011010 110101101 0011001010 101011010 0010111011 101101111 111111110 0100100101 0100101010 010011101 1001011010 11101111 101011010 11101111 100101110 11101111 101001010 10101101 101110010 11101111 101111010 10010101 1110101100 110011111 111111010 010101101 1111111110 010101111 10100111010 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, sing, and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word bring at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Revisited;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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