This is an analysis of the poem A Soldier Dreams Of White Lilies that begins with:
He dreams of white lilies,
an olive branch,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdadcefgggahahgihXbhjklhlkhXigddgXaffgkmjaXkaakhgggXgjjcldegghhXimabcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 1101 0101010 11001111 01010 1111000001011101111 10110 111111100111010 001111 111101 111011 111001111 1110010 100110 1110100101110 1111110 11001111 01010101 11110 1 110100010111010101001 111010111010011 110101110101001 110101001111010 1111111110011 1101010010001 10111011110101 1110101000101010 10011111001 10101110011001 11111010001 111010111101000101 1101101101010100100101 11011 11110 01110 11000011110110 110011 00100011101110 1111011011001 110001100010110 111010001 101101110101010 0110110101110010 111011101101000100 101010 1011011101111111 111010101111101100 10100010 011111 1011110111 100011111110101 1001011111 1111001101111 10100011 1110101111001101 0101000100010101101 1110100100111 11101 110010101 11101111100 111101011 1101101 1101101010101 110111010 110111011010010 110101001010101001 110111011010110 111111101110 011000111101 11011101110110 1111110011101000110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3331
- Average number of words per stanza: 654
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i, its, it, and, in, his, of, not, need, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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