This is an analysis of the poem To Her: In Time Of War that begins with:
Once I made for you songs,
Rondels, triolets, sonnets;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbcad XXcdeXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 101010 111111 111111 101101 11011010 1001111 101101011 110101 01110010 110101 1011001 1011110 0011111 01011110 101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word verse is repeated.
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