This is an analysis of the poem Murmurings In A Field Hospital that begins with:

[They picked him up in the grass where he had lain two
days in the rain with a piece of shrapnel in his lungs.]...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab abbbc XcbXddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 111100111111 1001001010001 101100111 010001010011 101010101101110 11111010100101010 0111010101001 1110111010 1101101 1110100101 1011111110010 1101011010 100011010 10101011010 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, with are repeated.

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