This is an analysis of the poem Send Them Home Tenderly that begins with:

Send them home tenderly,
The sleepers at rest,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbXded AXXXafXf Agegebfb AcdcXcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100 01011 011010 11101 1011010 01101 1111110 11011 101100 01011 1101100 11010 111110 01001 1110110 01001 101100 11011 0011110 11101 0110110 01011 1000110 11111 101100 11101 1110010 001101 1111010 011001 0110010 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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