This is an analysis of the poem Honor Among Scamps that begins with:
We are the smirched. Queen Honor is the spotless.
We slept thro' wars where Honor could not sleep. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdcXbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100010 1111110111 10110101110 1101010111 10111101010 11000110001 11110101010 0101010101 110101011110 1101011111 01010111010 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, honor, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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