This is an analysis of the poem Colonel Samuel Colt, that begins with:
Died at Hartford, on Friday morning, January 10th, 1862.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabaXcdc Xdedfgbg baaaadXd bahahiai bdhdfheh dajaeghg jbabcehe akhkXaba hjkjadjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110101011 111101111 010101 11011101 111101 11000111 110101 11010111 110001 100101010 110101 11010101 110111 100101001 010101 11110000 1100011 10010101 110111 10010111 110101 110010101 1001001 11110101 110101 11110101 1101001 10010101 110101 110101001 010111 11011101 110101 11011101 110001 11110011 110101 01011101 010101 01011101 010001 01011101 010101 11100001 011101 01011011 010101 11010111 0100101 10011101 0100101 01011101 1111001 10010001 0110001 11010101 111101 11010101 010101 010100101 010111 01011111 11101 01010101 111011 11000101 110101 01010101 101101 01011101 010111 11011101 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word nor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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