This is an analysis of the poem The Colored Soldiers that begins with:
IF the muse were mine to tempt it
And my feeble voice were strong,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdCDdacXeefeXgfgXhchfijiahXheacafXaijkckjiCidgcXXabaciaicejechbhegXgedjdjdcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010 1110101 01101010 1110101 11101010 0110101 00101010 111101 00101110 10100111 11101011 1010101 10111110 0011111 11111010 0010101 10111010 1011101 10101110 1010101 11101010 10101001 11101010 1110011 11101110 1011001 011111010 0010001 110001110 1010101 111100110 1010101 11100010 0010111 10100010 1010001 00101010 001010 1011001 0010001 11101110 1010101 10101110 1010101 10100110 10011101 00101010 1110111 10101110 1110101 10110110 0010110 00100110 00101001 1101010 1111101 10111110 1111101 10001010 1010101 10100110 1010101 10111010 1110111 11111010 1111101 111010100 1010101 11111110 1011111 11111010 1101111 11111001 0010001 11111010 100101001 11101110 0110101 0101010 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2657
- Average number of words per stanza: 485
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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, and, their, they, to, as, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of, and, none, in, they are repeated.
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