This is an analysis of the poem For All Those Who Died that begins with:
For all those who died-
stripped naked, shaved, shorn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab acde fd ggh fe dc dc cd bba dXh aded haXbhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,3,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 11011 11111 0100110 100111 11101 111101110101 101010100 111110 11100010 1111100001 1111010101100 1101011101 111110 10001 11111 10110 111101 10110 11111110101 001001 010101 111110110 1110 10110 10111 11110 0111011 001 1101110 0011111 010101010 101101 001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; for, those, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of For All Those Who Died;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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