This is an analysis of the poem You And You that begins with:

TO THE AMERICAN PRIVATE IN THE GREAT WAR
Every one of you won the war— ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a ABab AcacbBbbbc dccd eefeggecceeeXBceeeffcccA ABaahhiibbi jbjbdd ABkkk gccdlmdlm nnckkkk iiXXgglAl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,10,4,24,11,6,5,9,7,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 000100100011 100101101 11111 11101011 1110101 100101101 010010001 100101101 100111 1001011011 11111 100111001 10111111 10110111 1110101 1011011101 11100111 10010101 10010111 10010101 10011101 0010100101 10010101 100101001 10010011 1100100101 1001011001 1001011001 100110101 1001011001 100111001 1100110 11111 100101001 1001001001 10110111 1011011011 11100111 10101101 100111111 10100101 1100100111 100101101 100101101 11111 101101111 101100101 010101001 11001011101 1011011010 10110110110 101101 111101 11110010110 101101 10011 101101 10011 111111011011 101 100101101 11111 11101011 11100101 111011111 110111111 111001010 1010101010 1100100101 01101011 1001001001 1001001101 1001011101 101011101 1110100111 00110111 011100 1101101101 11111111 111101111 111111 1101100101 0110101 101110111 111101101 100100111 100111101 111111011 100101101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, or, from, all, to, back, on, that, our, dead are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whether, you, every, all, back, and, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word every at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines war, you are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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