This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier's Family that begins with:
The candle burns, beside the curtain set,
So far this woman hasn't slept yet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ffddff ggddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101 110101011 100101101 11011101 0111010001 00101 111111110 01111010 1011010 010001110 1110101101 0001010010 010111 1101111 1100001101 1010101001 010110111 111111 111010100 11110100 010100101 011010001 1110101 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; she is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, her, thus are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines well is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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