This is an analysis of the poem The Contemplative Sentry that begins with:
When all night long a chap remains
On sentry-go, to chase monotony... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefEFEFG hdhdibibefEFEFG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1101010100 11010001 1001011110 11010001 0100110101 111101001 1101110101 11010100 11011101 1100111001 11000101 010010100 110100100 111 1011101 0101110001 11011111 1111110100 11010001 0101010100 01010101 1111010100 11010111 11010101 1100111001 11000101 010010100 110100100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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