This is an analysis of the poem The Soldier's Return: A Ballad that begins with:
WHEN wild war's deadly blast was blawn,
And gentle peace returning,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacXXX defeghgh fcfccaca bijiaXaX jeXeXdXX khcXjcgc XcXXXhcX Xfekekeje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 1101010 110011100 11001010 11011101 1110010 11011111 0111010 01111011 1101110 11110101 1101010 11010111 1101110 11010101 1111010 1111011 1101110 11011101 1101110 11111111 1101010 11110101 1011110 110111101 1111010 11010110 1100110 11011101 1110110 11111101 11010100 11001111 11001110 1110101110 0111110 110111001 1101010 11010110 11010110 111100101 1111010 11011111 101111100 101111111 1111010 11011111 1100010 111101011 1111110 11011101 11110100 111010111 01010010 11110101 11000100 11010101 0101010 11000101 0101010 01110101 1111010 01010101 01110010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, thought, upon, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, by, the are repeated.
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