This is an analysis of the poem He Arrives that begins with:
He arrives,
To apply a different tactic....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcdb defddf Addfef AXagea Adaeecg AhaXhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 001010010 1100 11110011 1010101 001010001 110010 010101010 00101 010101001 1001011110 0010110101 101 011111 111110101 1010101011101 11010 101001101111 101 011001 01101011101 11001111110 01010101001 0111010010111 101 11010 0100111 10101010 00101001 1101 011101101 101 1100101 1011111 1111 1101101 011011000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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