This is an analysis of the poem Guns Of Peace that begins with:
GHOSTS of dead soldiers in the battle slain,
Ghosts of dead heroes dying nobler far, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeedeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011000101 1011010101 00110001001 0101110011 11111101001 0101110101 11110100101 1011110101 1101110111 1111111111 1011010101 11110101001 1011011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 650
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ghosts is repeated.
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