This is an analysis of the poem Just After The War that begins with:
O! I am a conscript
O! how I do wish...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX aXXX XXaX XbXX XXaX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 11111 11110111 1110010 1111101 111010 11001011 1010010 11011101 111010 1111010 11010010 1011010011010 111001 11110010 111010 1111101 110110101 1110111 0110010 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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