This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Old Guard that begins with:
Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear
And all the clouds are gone--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdede bfbfgegE fhfhdedE aXahhehE icichehE agagjXje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001 110111 01011101 0111010 01011101 010101 11010101 101111 01010101 011101 11111101 111101 010011001 110101 11101101 111111 11101001 110101 11011101 110111 11110101 110111 11010111 111111 11110101 110100 11010101 110101 111100101 110101 011110101 111111 11010101 110101 11011101 111101 01010011 11010 010010111 111111 11110101 010111 01011101 011101 11011101 010100 11010111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word we at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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