This is an analysis of the poem Great War Poems that begins with:
I.
The same old soldiers walking along the same old skyline...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X X X X a X X X b X b X X X X X a X X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01110100101111 1 11101110110101101 1 10010100010010100001110100001101010111001011001011 1 1011001110 1 101010001101000101 1 0101010101011010001 1 1011010011000101100010101000101110101100010 1 10111001 1 111010011101 1 0110001011000100101000101101000101010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 50
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mud, of are repeated.
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