This is an analysis of the poem When The Drums Shall Cease To Beat that begins with:
When will the laughter ring again in the way that it used to do?
Not till the soldiers come home again, not till the war is through....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc bbdd ccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010100110101 110101101110101 100101011010101 1101111110101101 1010110100100101 110101111010101 1111111011100111 1101011011010101 11001001011100101 111101001011010101 111010110110111101 1111101011011101 11111111011100111 10001111011100101 101011110110111101 1111111011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, till, again, and, we, for, of, as, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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