This is an analysis of the poem Frag2 that begins with:

Tall as a guardsman, pale as the east at dawn,
Who strides in strange apparel on the lawn?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffXXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11011110111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 11010111001 1101110101 111101101 0111011111 1101110101 1001110101 1011110111 1100011101 1101011101 1001110110 1101010101 01010100011 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 785
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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; now is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.

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