This is an analysis of the poem Lieutenant-Colonel Flare that begins with:
The earth has armies plenty,
And semi-warlike bands,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABaBCDCD ebebXbXb fgfgebeb ahaheieX hghXhjhj Xkbkfdfd cgcbacac eleaXmlm agaggkgk fefefkfk niniacacXABaBCDCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 110111 1111110 010101 1101010 111001 0100010 010101 0101010 110101 1101010 110101 1101110 110111 0101010 010111 1101010 110101 1101010 110101 0101010 1100101 0101010 010001 1101010 011101 10101110 110111 1100010 110001 1101010 11010100 0101010 110111 1101010 010100 1101010 011101 1101010 110111 0100100 010101 1101110 110111 1101010 1100111 1111111 110101 1101010 010100 1101110 110110 1100110 110101 1100010 110101 1101010 110110 1111010 010100 010111 010101 10001011 101101 1101110 110001 1101110 111101 1101010 110101 0101010 110101 1111010 011111 0101010 010111 1101010 010101 1111010 011101 1111010 110101 0101010 111101 0101110 110111 1111110 111001 0111010 110111 0101110 010101 1101010 111001 0100010 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, or, give, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, the, he are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lieutenant-Colonel Flare;
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