This is an analysis of the poem The Dead For England that begins with:

Where rest the dead for England? . . .
In fields of France afar,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdad aaea afef agXg Xchc aaha hiai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 010101 1111010 110101 11001010 11001001 11001110 110111 1101110 010111 1111010 110101 1101010 010101 00111010 1010101 1101110 110101 11110101 010111 1111100 111101 0101010 0101001 1101010 110111 1111110 1100111 1101010 011110 10101010 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, their are repeated.

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