This is an analysis of the poem The Veteran that begins with:
UNDERNEATH the autumn sky,
Haltingly, the lines go by....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddbbeeffggaaXheeiXffhhiiiijjiihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1000111 1110111 1111101 1111111 1011111 1011101 10010101 1110111 1011101 1011101 1010101 1011111 00100101 0110111 111001001 1110111 100001001 1011101 1011110 11101100 1111111 10010101 1000001 0110101 11110011 0110111 1010101 1110101 1110111 0110111 0110101 1011111 011001001 10011111 1010101 1011111 1011111 1010101 0010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1246
- Average number of words per stanza: 237
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; on, he, and, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Veteran;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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