This is an analysis of the poem Cavalry Crossing A Ford that begins with:
A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands;
They take a serpentine course--their arms flash in the sun--Hark to... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbXacXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111101110 110101111100110 01001 0101001000010101001 01 010111111100100 10011010 101101001101110001 1 10111101 01011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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 is repeated.
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