This is an analysis of the poem The Assault Heroic that begins with:
Down in the mud I lay,
Tired out by my long day ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddeeffgghhddhhiiffjjkkffllggffkkffllddlllX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 1011111 011111 110111 111111 010001 1101001 1011001 011111 010101 111101 101101 101111 011111 011101 110111 110111 1100111 1100111 111111 0100101 101101 1111010 0111010 011111 110101 110101 110101 011111 1100001 001101 110101 010111 1001001 010101 110111 1100001 110101 111111 111101 1101010 1001010 100011 111111 111101 101101 111101 1110010 1111001 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1439
- Average number of words per stanza: 262
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words today, we, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nights is repeated).
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- summary of The Assault Heroic;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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