This is an analysis of the poem As I Walk These Broad, Majestic Days that begins with:
AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace,
(For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdddXaaX dce dXXXeX dcaXddafXbcaef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,3,6,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101 1010100110011010 01 01111010001 111011010101101 0100101011101010 10011101001110 11110100010 0111111000110101 00100101110 001101010100101 1101101010 011000110110 1101000011111000 11101101 10110110100111011 0 1010100100101010 0100101101001 1110100101010 110100 1101111 10010011001001001101 0011 01100110010100011 100101 11100100100110010 010 1101111 10010111101 101100101011 010011000111110010 1110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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