This is an analysis of the poem The Released Rebel Prisoner that begins with:

Armies he's seen- the herds of war,
But never such swarms of men...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb dede cfXf aaga dada gaga bfbf fcdcXaeae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10110101 1101101 1100100001 1100101 111101100 010101 110000011 100101 01010101 01010101 100010111 110111 01010001 1011111 110110101 111101 11010111 11010101 1100101 111101101 11011111 0010101 10101110 1100101 11010101 010101 11011111 110111 11010100 1111011 101110101 1110100 01010101 100101 11010100 1100101 11110101 0010001 01010100 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; of, his, home are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Released Rebel Prisoner;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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