This is an analysis of the poem A Letter From The Trenches To A School Friend that begins with:
I have not brought my Odyssey
With me here across the sea;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbccddeeXbccffeedd ffccgggeeghddXXccdddddiiiffbbccbbjjccbd ddccbbbbcXddkkXbhXhhllhhaXfX mmllnnggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,39,28,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 0110101 11010111 11111101 01010111 10010101 010101001 11010101 01010101 01111101 010110101 10011101 01110111 11010101 01010101 01010111 10111101 11010101 11010111 111100001 01010101 11011111 110101001 01011001 01010101 11001011 01001100 11010011 01100111 0101010100 110111001 00011111 10110101 110100010 100101 11110101 01010 11011111 11010101 101111001 11110111 0001 1111 11110001 10111111 01010101 01011101 01011101 10110101 11110011 10111111 11010111 10111101 11111101 10111101 11010101 01110111 10110101 111101 111111110 00101010 11111001 01110111 0101111 01110011 11010111 11110101 11010101 11111100 10110101 01110001 111100101 10010111 01010110 11000101 11010101 11110111 01001101 01010101 11111111 11011101 11000111 11110101 110111010 010100 11010101 01110110 00010101 10110001 11111101 11110111 11011101 01100101 11010001 11110001 11010001 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 834
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines down, it, way are repeated).
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