This is an analysis of the poem The Verdicts that begins with:
Not in the thick of the fight,
Not in the press of the odds,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcbc bdbd ebeb afaf gfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 1001001 10101011 1110101 111011 111001 101001 101011 111101 1011001 11111001 1100111 1101111 011100 11011011 100001011 1111001 11101101 11111 111111 11011011 1110001 11111110111 0010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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- summary of The Verdicts;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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