This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Soldier-Born that begins with:
Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd ddd eee Xcc Xff ggg hhh eee XXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001101010 10011010010010 110101101010 110111001110 0101011101010 0111001001010 1111010111010 0100100101110 0100100101110 111111110011 10010010110111 110101111011 11011111011011 11111100010111 1101011111011 1110111101110 0101011101110 1110100111010 10111011010110 1011101010110 1011111001110 110111101110 10100111010010 10110001101010 101011011011011 101111101010111 101111001010111 1101111010010 1101011110010 101101001110010 10101101001010 1111101111010 1110101101010 1110111101110 1001111111010 10111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, soldier's, me, go, you, with, your, to, there's, for, be, that, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, go, you, there's, that are repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, for are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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