This is an analysis of the poem The Giant In Glee that begins with:
Ho, warriors! I was reared in the land of the Gauls;
O'er the Rhine my ancestors came bounding like balls...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccXd eeaa eeaa eeff gghh iidd bbeebb aajj ffjj kkhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100111001001 1001111011011 001101101111 1011010111100 111011100101 010110001001 101101111010 011111101101 110011111001 111101111001 111101011001 111011011001 111101011001 111010010101 1111001001011 111001011011 101011010011 111110111001 101011101001 111010101001 1010011001101 111001011011 101111111011 101101101011 111001111111 001111011111 01111001011 101111001101 101001101111 010110101101 111001001001 11001011001 101011001111 011101010101 101101111111 101011010011 111011001111 1010011111011 111110001011 111001111011 111010001111 101111111101 111011001111 1111101010101 001111101111 101001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, in, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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