This is an analysis of the poem XV. 'How oft the traitor trumpet sounds retreat' that begins with:
How oft the traitor trumpet sounds retreat,
Beguiling my bewildered soul again,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabccb cdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1100110111 1111010001 1111110111 1101110001 1110010101 1111010101 0111000101 1111110011 1111010011 0111010111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; in is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- Analysis of XXV. 'Now would that thou wert here, my happiness'
