This is an analysis of the poem Salvage that begins with:
Guns on the battle lines have pounded now a year
between Brussels and Paris....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXcXbXdXXcdXXXcbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110101 0110110 1101011111101 0110110110100 100010010111 011011101001 11001110100100 01001010111 1101011010110 1011111110 110110011011 01000 100101011101 10110111100 01110101101 11111101100 101111010 111010011101 1011 11010111001101 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1001
- Average number of words per stanza: 168
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, i'm, glad, you're, of, you are repeated.
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- summary of Salvage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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