This is an analysis of the poem Soldier, Wake that begins with:
Soldier, wake - the day is peeping,
Honour ne'er was won in sleeping, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffccXXffee ggffhhffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 10111010 1010101 11000101 1111101 01110111 11101010 100101010 11101110 10101010 1110101 11010001 11010001 11010001 010101010 01010101 1011101 11010111 11101010 11101010 110110101 11010101 10010101 10110001 11011111 11010111 110100001 11110111 111111010 011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thy, each are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hath is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mirror at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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