This is an analysis of the poem Jean Chouan that begins with:
The Whites fled, and the Blues fired down the glade.
A hill the plain commanded and surveyed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXccaaddaaccXeb baaffaXXebXggffe eaahhcciiccjjXkccdXaaXaaalXlkkaalljjbbcccckkhhccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,16,50,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110110101 0101010101 1101011101 11011010101 1111000101 1011111101 111011101 1101111111 111110001 1101011101 1101110101 01011100101 011001101001 1101110101 1101010111 11101111101 10010101001 1111010111 10100111010 111001101 1101111101 1001010111 0101010101 0100111001 111011111 0101011111 0101110101 1101111111 11101011000 0101010001 1001001101 11011101010 1101110101 11110010101 1101111101 1100111101 0101010101 1101110101 111010111 101111111 01110011111 010101011 1101011101 1111010101 1100010101 1111110101 111110101 1101110111 1111011101 1111010111 01110011010 1101011101 0101111011 11101011101 0111110101 1111011100 1011010111 1101111101 11111011101 110001011101 11111101011 11001000101 111011111 1011011111 11110011101 1010111100 1111111101 1100010110 1111011101 11010010001 1111011101 1101011111 1111010101 1101111101 1011110111 0101010101 0101110101 1111010101 110110011001 0101010101 1011101101 11110111001 0101110111 0101010001 1100010001 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 983
- Average number of words per stanza: 181
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, he, ', we, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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