This is an analysis of the poem The Cenotaph that begins with:
Not yet will those measureless fields be green again
Where only yesterday the wild sweet blood of wonderful youth was shed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbccbccdbdbbbeddeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101100010101 11010101110100111 10011111111101 11101001111101111 11101011010010110111101 11101001001011110101 110011101111100100101 100101100011100101 10110001001 00101001010111111111 0101001010 010010 1111 100100101 00111011110101 10111000101 10110111 1011110101 100101101 1111 0111 110100101 1100010010101101 111110001 0111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1311
- Average number of words per stanza: 241
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Cenotaph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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