This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Drummer that begins with:
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They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbc X deXede X fafafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 1000111 0110011 110101 11010101 110101 1 11010101 100101 01000110 110101 11100101 110101 1 11001011 111100 01010111 110101 11110101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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