This is an analysis of the poem The Return that begins with:
NIGHT and we heard heavy cadenced hoofbeats
Of troops departing; the last cohorts left... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX bXaX cacX dccd bcXX bcbX XXcb dXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111010010 0101001101 1011111101 1011101100 10110111010 1101001001 10011111010 1011011111 01000111010 11101100101 101111111010 01110101110 10110111011 0110110101 01010011101 11110001 11110111010 111111011 10111010110 1011010111 1001010111 1101010111 01011010101 0101110101 11010100001 01101111 11010111001 01010111110 10010010101 11011110 11111100101 01011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, then are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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