This is an analysis of the poem The Rear-Guard that begins with:
Groping along the tunnel, step by step,
He winked his prying torch with patching glare ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cdcdeffeaXaXbbddbddbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010111 1101010101 010111010001 1101011101 0101010001 1101010101 0101010101 10110011111 1101110101 1101010101 1101100101 1111111111 11111101010 10110110001 1101010101 1001011111 1001011101 11010101001 0111010111 1111010101 00110010101 1101010101 1101010001 1111000111 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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