Two Poems From The War by Archibald MacLeish: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Two Poems From The War that begins with:

Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing!
Not dumb farewells, nor long relinquishment ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaabba ccdede fgfgbebe XccXgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000101 1111111000 0101110101 1101000100 1100011101 0111010100 1101110101 011111011 1111101111 0100010111 1101101101 0100100011 0101110101 110010001 1111110101 1101111001 0101011111 1111010111 1001010101 0100010111 0101110111 1111010101 1111111101 0101011001 1101011101 0101010100 11010110001 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

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