This is an analysis of the poem Fetching The Wounded that begins with:
At the road's end glimmer the station lights;
How small beneath the immense hollow of Night's... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeeffggbbggaahhcciihhjjkkaa jjeekkkkhheejXhhbbllbbmXnnaabXaaeeeejjeeffXmkkoojj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011100101 11010011001 1011010111 1101011111 01110101010 001011100110 0101010001 1001000011 1001011100 0101110111 11100101010 110100110010 1110011101 0101011101 11001010101 11001011101 11001011100 1100011100 01001110101 1011110100 1001010101 1101010100 10110100101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110111 1011110011 0101011111 01001101111 10110101011 1000010101 11110011001 11000110111 1011010101 0001110001 0111010101 1110011001 1101111101 11110100101 1101010111 0101010101 1011111101 1111001111 11100011101 1011001101 1010101001 0110010100 01000100100 11001110111 01010010110 110010000111 00101010101 1101110001 01010101001 101110111001 1100011101 110010010111 0111010111 1101101101 1001101100 10010010101 0011101111 1001010111 010010111001 0101010101 1011000101 11010010101 1100110011 1101000111 0011110111 0100110011 1011010101 0101110101 1011011101 10110001010 001010101110 0101110101 11010101001 0101010100 0011010101 0101111101 1111000111 11110010101 11001010111 1101110111 0111010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1884
- Average number of words per stanza: 328
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of, or, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.
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