This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Soldier that begins with:
The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark;
He's but the remnant of a man, maimed and half-blind,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dbdb efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101110101 110100011111 1011111110101 100101101001 0101011101011 110010110101 1101011010101 01111010111 10110101011 010101010101 11110111101 010110101001 1011010110101 0100101010011 1111010101101 011001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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