This is an analysis of the poem The Wars And The Unknown Soldier that begins with:
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Dry leaves, soldier, dry leaves, dead leaves;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdefghd XhXe ijjhjjg kljhj mXeliXjknjfXXbbdi Xdgnm keXlbfd oejnn bXjbdom dgkjbabbdjbcmXe mdXgd mccdgfdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,7,5,17,5,7,5,7,15,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11101111 10011011100 010 01010101001 00101011001 10011001110 100110110 0011101 10100 1000101100001 1000101111010 1100011 010001 00100011 1101 110100111010 0100101001001 011111010101 1101010 01010110 01011011100 1 11100101010 110001 01010 11011111110 011101101001011 001001010110110 11 001111100100 10011001101 10 0110101110101 10 11001110011 10 0101101010010 010 11010010010 100100101110 110111 1 00110010111 0101101000100 1001010010011 110110 00110 111010101001 101 110101001010 11 01110010111 11100110010 011101101111 101001001001 0100100100101 1011101001 1010101 10110 111110101011 1111010101 100 110010011001 111010101101 1000111110010 1111001101001 0111 100110 1 1 111111101 10 00111001010111 011011110010 1110101010110 0111001101 0010010001010 010 0101100010010 11111100010001 101010111110 01 11101001111 11 10101001101 11010 1111001101 101010111111 01 111110010010 100111110110 1101001101001 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; leaves, of, dead, in, drowned, from, to, you, clear are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word three is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead, you are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases dead, crystal connect the lines.
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