This is an analysis of the poem The Old Soldier that begins with:
Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven,
God bids the old soldier they all adored...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XaXa cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001010 1101101101 10111101110 010110001001 1001001110 101000111 1111111110 0110111110 11110110010 1111001110 1001110110 1001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Old Soldier;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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