This is an analysis of the poem Elegy For The Native Guards that begins with:
We leave Gulfport at noon; gulls overhead
trailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbaadeedafgadgfddXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111101 1001101011 1010110111 1001010101 1010001111 01010001001 0111001010 1110100111 0110010101 011101011 111000100111 101100100110 0100001000 1101110110 1010010111 0111110101 1100101110 1010001100 1011010111 1011110111 1110110101 10010111011 1010110001 010011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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