This is an analysis of the poem Reveille that begins with:
Come forth, you workers!
Let the fires go cold—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcBAdXeeaaaXaddcaaXaaefbcgahghaahAhXbcBAafcaagaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 101011 1010111001 101011 10110101 1011010101 1010101010 1011010101 1 01101 1111011 1101110 00111 1110111 1110101 1111101 10110100011 111101010 11111010 1111 1001010 100101010 100101 11111010 111110101 110111 100110 11111110 101001 011110 1001 11001000101 0110101111 1100100010 11110 100110 111011 101011 101011001 101011 10110101 1111011010 1111001 111111011 1100101 111010011 001010 101110010 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1600
- Average number of words per stanza: 296
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; let, and, your, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, out are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dawn is repeated).
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- summary of Reveille;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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