This is an analysis of the poem Corporal Stare that begins with:
Back from the line one night in June,
I gave a dinner at Bethune— ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXXffggXXgghXiiffgghhff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 11010101 101001101 10111111 11011001 01110101 010010101 110011101 11011111 110001001 11110010 01011101 01010101 01001101 10110101 1101111 10011111 11010100 11110101 11110101 110111001 11111100 110110110 1100101110 11010101 110110101 10110100 011111010 10010101 1011101001 100100111 011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1180
- Average number of words per stanza: 204
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stare connects the lines.
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