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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