This is an analysis of the poem A Million Young Work Men that begins with:

A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff on the grass and roads,
And the million are now under soil and their rottening flesh will in...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101101111110111 10101110111100100001101110 101001101010101101111 110110011010101110011001001011111111001 01110010101110110010101011111101101111111111011011100110110100101 1101010011010111101011 11010111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 879
  • Average number of words per stanza: 164
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 125 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 23
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, million, of are repeated.

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