This is an analysis of the poem Army of Occupation that begins with:
The summer blew its little drifts of sound—
Tangled with wet leaf-shadows and the light... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab cbccb dadda cecce efeefXebeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 1001111101 1101010101 0101111111 01010011001 1101010111 1111001101 1101110111 1101110001 1100111101 1101110101 1100110111 1101111001 11011111101 1100110101 1101111101 1110110101 1001110101 0101010001 101010101 0101010111 0101000101 1111110011 0101010101 1111011101 1101110111 10110011101 1101110001 1011000101 1001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Army of Occupation;
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