This is an analysis of the poem An Old Twenty-Third Man that begins with:
“Is that the Three-and-Twentieth, Strabo mine,
Marching below, and we still gulping wine?” ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffddaaffgghhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011100101 1001111101 0011000101 01110100101 1101010111 11011100101 1001100101 0101111101 1011001111 1111010111 1101110101 1101010100 1000100111 1001010111 1111010101 1111110101 0101010101 0101010101 1011011101 0100010011 011111000110 11011100110 1111011111 0100010111 1111010101 11110000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1185
- Average number of words per stanza: 209
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; dead, legion are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dead connects the lines.
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