This is an analysis of the poem The American Soldier that begins with:
Deep in a vale, a stranger now to arms,
Too poor to shine in courts, too proud to beg,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac Xdad cece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 1101011101 11110110001 11010011101 01001010101 0101110101 1101011111 100010110001 1101110101 1001111101 01010101010 0111010111 1111111101 1101000111 11001110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, from are repeated.
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