This is an analysis of the poem As He Walks Away that begins with:
The enemy who drinks tea in our hovel
has a horse in smoke, a daughter with...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbccdeccfgbhXhXXXeagcchcifjjklkmbmhXhmdiidckdhlXiijkXeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01001110110 101010100 11111111 1010010 10101 11001010 1110111 1101011010101 0101010100 0101011 0100110100 10101011101 1111101 10110110101 111101111011 101010 1111111 1111001 0110111101 01001101011 10101111100 111100101 1111111 11011011 110101010010 11110111 1111011011 110101 1100001 11001 1110110101011 01011 1001 111000111 1011100111010 1111111 11111110 1111101101 11101001111101001 1111110 0101101 111110110 111110 0011111 111101 1100100010010 11010 111100101001 1010001 11 111011 11101110001 1101 01101 11101 010010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 997
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, can are repeated.
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