This is an analysis of the poem To A Canadian Lad Killed In The War that begins with:
O noble youth that held our honour in keeping,
And bore it sacred through the battle flame,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXa XacXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110111110010 1101010101 1111110001 01111101010 11110101110 10110111010 11000111000 011100110110 111101010110 1001101001110 11010110101 01101111010 011001100010 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and, with are repeated.
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