This is an analysis of the poem Terror that begins with:
Soldiers, rifles in hand, stalk about, all around.
I stand in their midst, unarmed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXaXcccdaXaeXeXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001101101 1101101 0101111110011001010011 1111101001 0101010101011 1111011111111 11101110110100101010010011010 0111111010100 01011110110 010101110110 100110011110 1111010101100 11011010010101000101 1101010100 001001100101001 10111101001 101111101011 1011111 01111011010 0110110010110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1099
- Average number of words per stanza: 207
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, can, they, to, strike, terror, if, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, if are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines terror is repeated).
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- summary of Terror;
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