This is an analysis of the poem The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak that begins with:
The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab cd ed eX cX ab XXd Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 100111100110 11110 11010111011 11011 11101111 0101 11111111 10100100011 111110111010010 11111111 1111111111 1011110 11101111101 1101111101101 0011110 1111110110 101111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, our, they, it, say are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, we are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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