This is an analysis of the poem The Call that begins with:
I hear an Army!
Millions of men coming up from the edge of the world,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbXcde dfbebfc XbXcXebA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110 1001101001001 010100011010110 111110101001 1001001001101 100110111001 001101011101 10010011001 110011110101 1101011010001 1111100101 10110101001 10011111101 1111110101111 100100001101 10011100101 00010011001 10010101101 1111100101001 11001111011 10110100101 0010100101001 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, her, men, from, one, they are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Call;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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