This is an analysis of the poem Spring In The Trenches that begins with:
It's coming time for planting in that little patch of ground,
Where the lad and I made merry as he followed me around;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xaca ddee dfXf aagg dhch ccbb Xidi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011100110101 101111101110101 01010101010111 101010101110101 10111 1010101 11110101 011111 001010101010101 01110101010101 101110101010101 01011101010101 10111 1011101 01010101 011101 11110101110101 010101010110001 11010001111110 01010101110101 10111 110101 11011111 110101 11010101110101 11010101010101 11010101011101 11011111011101 10111 1010111 01011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, tramp, fight, year, shoot, who, charge are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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- summary of Spring In The Trenches;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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