This is an analysis of the poem The Farmer Remembers The Somme that begins with:

Will they never fade or pass!
The mud, and the misty figures endlessly coming ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccdXdbddb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 0110111 0110101010010 0110110 101110100111 101110 0111001 110111001110 1110101 11110101101 101110 110101 0110101101110 111111 00101001111 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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