This is an analysis of the poem Looking into History that begins with:
Five soldiers fixed by Mathew Brady's eye
Stand in a land subdued beyond belief. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efeXf ghgh X ifif ffff afaf X aghg ghah higi ijgj jagX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101110101 1001010101 0111010111 1101010101 0111110011 1100110101 1101010101 10101000101 0111111101 0101110101 1001110101 11000 010101 1011111101 0110110001 1011111111 0111011100 1 1111010111 11011100101 110101001 00110011100 1011011111 0100010101 1001010101 1101000101 0011011101 1001010101 0101000101 1100010001 1 111001 110101 0001110 10011 011101 111111 110101 101101 11101 0110001 01010110 111001 110101 100111 111101 100101 0100101 010101 1111001 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase belief connects the lines.
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- summary of Looking into History;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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