This is an analysis of the poem War's Homecoming that begins with:
We little thought how much they meant- the bleeding hearts of France,
And British mothers wearing black to mark some troop's advance,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccccdd eeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111010101 11010101011101 01111101011101 11010101110101 11010101110111 11110101011101 1111010111001011 11110111010101 110111011100101 110010101110101 11110111111101 11110111010001 11110101110111 11010101111111 11001101010101 11111101011101 11011101110101 11010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, that, and, of, such, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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