This is an analysis of the poem Pershing At The Tomb Of Lafayette that begins with:
THEY knew they were fighting our war. As the months grew to years
Their men and their women had watched through their blood and their tears...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101011101100 11111011111111 101111111111001 011101111001001 01011101011001 11101001011011 01011001011011 01011011101011 11011111111101 01101001001111 100001101001001 1001111011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 754
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; their, and, of, our, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word only is repeated.
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