This is an analysis of the poem The Troops that begins with:
Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom
Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXec bXcdfdgba bXXghcfXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001000101 10010011101 10001111101 1111010001 10110111101 0101011101 1101000101 100010101111 1111010101 1111011101 00110100001 1101010111 0111000111 01011010101 1101001101 1101010101 11011100111 1111010111 11000110101 1011010101 1011001101 11100010001 11110110101 0101010101 0100010111 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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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- summary of The Troops;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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