This is an analysis of the poem A Musing On A Victory that begins with:
Down by the Sutlej shore,
Where sound the trumpet and the wild tum-tum,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabX cdccdcd eddeed feXegbhbgfeggh iddcccjjcjjkjjk egececglfjjeelfmm hmhgnngcmhhcaachch eideeiedicgnngaaceccehhddoaao
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,14,15,17,18,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101 1101010111 110101 0111010111 01001001111 111000 0011001 1100010101 111101 110101 011111 11111000101 1111 110111 1110010111 1111011101 010101 1111100101 110101 0111011111 1110000111 01111101100 1101010101 0100011011 0101011101 0101010101 00110100101 0111010001 11010110101 11010101011 1101011111 1111010111 11110010100 0111111111 1101111111 1111010111 1101011111 1000010111 0111111101 0100010101 1010110101 0101010111 11011100101 0111110101 01110110101 0101010111 0111011001 1111010101 0111111111 1111011101 0111110101 01010010001 11010010101 0101010111 0101111101 01010001101 1001110101 1101111101 1001010101 1101000101 1101011101 1101000101 1101010101 1001010101 0101010111 1101010101 11100010101 1111111101 11001010101 0101011111 01011111001 1101010101 0011110101 1100010111 1111010101 10101010111 0101100101 1001110101 10110110001 10010011101 1111011101 11010101001 1001010101 11010011111 1101011100 1101110111 11001010101 0101010100 1111110101 0111000111 0101010111 1000101 0111110101 00110010011 11001010101 1111011111 0101000111 1101000111 1101010101 0111000101 0111001111 0111010101 0011011001 1110000111 1101110101 1011010101 0111011101 1101110111 1101100101 1111010111 1111010101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 583
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, of, and, so, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, the are repeated.
The author used the same word alas at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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