This is an analysis of the poem Consolation (For V1) that begins with:
You sighed: 'If I were younger I would go
And share the perils of the fighting man....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 1111010111 1101000101 1101010001 1111 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
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