This is an analysis of the poem The General Elliott that begins with:
He fell in victory's fierce pursuit,
Holed through and through with shot,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cXXX dede ebXb efdf cghg bahaXaaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 111101 01011111 111100 01010101 010101 10011100 011101 11111101 010101 111111001 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 0101001 11011101 110101 11011101 010101 11010011 1101001 11111111 111101 11110111 1100101 01010111 0101001 11110101 110101 10111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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