This is an analysis of the poem On The Misery Of Soldiers that begins with:

Yellow now is all the grass;
All the days in marching pass....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeffXddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1010101 10101001 1111111 10100101 10010101 1111101 1011101 1100001 1011100 1111100 1010101 1110111 1011101 1011101 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of On The Misery Of Soldiers;
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  • idea of the verse;
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