This is an analysis of the poem The Two Soldiers that begins with:
Just at the corner of the wall
We met - yes, he and I -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdXdcd bdbXbd dedXde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010001 111111 11110111 111101 11110111 101011 11110111 111111 11110101 101111 11010011 110101 10011111 110101 01010111 111000 11111101 100101 01111101 10101001 110101101 11010 010010111 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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