This is an analysis of the poem I Am A Veteran that begins with:
I am a veteran.
Once a young patriot who had volunteered, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXcd AbecfX AXXdXce AdbgcXhd hagbbcfgXAh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,7,8,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100 10110011101 0101010 101101010011 1010100 11010001101 110100 10101 01101010010 1011011010100 0101000110101 1100011010010 110100 100011110 1101010110110 0100011001001 1 110110101101000 1100101101010 110100 1101101001100 110100111 010101001 1100110101110 010101101011 1111101000100 10011101 1 110100 1111010001 11111 11101 10010 11100111001 010011001011 110100 010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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