This is an analysis of the poem The Last Salute that begins with:
In a far field, away from England, lies
A boy I friended with a care like love;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX dede dfXf XgaX cecX fhfh gigi Xjhj iaia hchc XXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011010101 0111000111 1101110111 0101011101 11010110101 11010100101 1101111011 1011010100 1101010101 1101010101 1111010111 0101010111 1111110101 0111010101 1101000100 1101011101 0100011100 10010111010 1111110111 1011010001 01000100010 0101001000 00010101010 1001010010 0100110101 0101010101 1101010101 1001010101 10101111110 1001010101 01110101110 1101011101 1011110010 1101111111 1101010101 0111010101 10010100010 1101100111 01110011010 1101101101 1011111101 1011011010 0101110101 1001011111 1101110110 1001111111 11010100101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, his, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, for, what are repeated.
The author used the same words the, all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Last Salute;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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