This is an analysis of the poem War's End Armistice Day 1935 that begins with:
Greyer and older, still they stand
Wearier, quieter, still they pray;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefbfbX dgdghihX fifidfdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110111 10100111 1111011001 1111101101 111100101 011111001 00101001001 010111111 10101101 0111100111 0011111101 011001101 111101101 010110101 1110101101 1010110101 10010111 10100101 100100111 11111111 1100111101 110011101 110011101 01110010010 10100111 1110010101 111101101 01100110101 11110101 010100101 111100111 1010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 309
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, over, again, all, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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