This is an analysis of the poem Pioneers, O Pioneers that begins with:
O you who look so soiled and weary,
Collect your armour for the struggle, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd ceff ecge bdfe hceX cicd eXcc cXiX fXea dedh ijef iXce Xccf ccdX cecX jehd ecai gcXi dccc caeaXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 011101010 110101010 0101010010 111111110 110101010 011001010 110111010 1101110110 101101110 10111100 101100110 01010110 010101010 101101010 110101010 010101110 110101010 001101110 010101010 110111010 110111110 111101110 111001110 110111010 110100010 100101010 111111110 110100110 101101111 100101110 1111110010 110101010 110101110 111101110 001111010 010101010 110111110 110111010 100111010 100101010 111101011 110101110 1101101010 111101110 110101100 010101010 110101010 010100011 0101010100 100101010 1111010010 101101110 1011011100 010111110 111100110 011101110 010111010 1011111010 111110110 100111011 110101110 011101011 110111010 110101010 0101111100 000111110 110111010 111111010 101111111 1111100011 1101011110 110111110 111111011 110111110 101101010 110111111 11010110 111101010 100111010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; and, we, my, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the, or are repeated.
The author used the same words the, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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