This is an analysis of the poem The Blood-Red Fourragere that begins with:
What was the blackest sight to me
Of all that campaign?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab acaaX dedde acaaX Xfggf abaab cacca aeaae agaaX cdccX abaab adaaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01101 010101001 01110110 101001 11100101 111011 10111101 1000101101 11101000 1111111101 10111000 100100111 1111100101 1010101 1111100101 1011111 10101001011 10100101111 11110100 10101001100 100101 1111101101 10111011010 101111 11100110111 11100101 10101001101 10101001001 1101111 111110101 011100001 111101111 111100101 111101 1110101111 111101 1011100101 111101001 1110111 111110101 0101001 101010010011 1010100110 11001010 11111101001 1101111 1010100101 111100101 011100 1111100111 111001101 0110101001 011110110 101001 1111110111 1110111 1110100101 1110111101 1010101111 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, some, would, of, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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