This is an analysis of the poem Beaucourt Revisited that begins with:

I wandered up to Beaucourt; I took the river track
And saw the lines we lived in before the Boche went back; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddbbeeffggccbbggfXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010110101 1101110010111 1111010011101 0111010110101 111111111101010 1111010110101 111110101100101 1011101101101001 0111010110111 0011111110001 11010100010101 01111100110011 1101011110111 0101110010001 11110101010101 10111110110101 1101110110101 1101011111111 1101110110101 10111100110101 1101110111111 11010111010011 1101110111101 11110101011101 111101010110111 01011101111010 11001110011101 10111110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 323
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

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