This is an analysis of the poem In No Man's Land that begins with:

The hedge on the left, and the trench on the right,
And the whispering, rustling wood between,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd XeceXXfd XXXXfgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101101101 1010010101 111100101 11101101 0101101010 100100101 0001001010 1010100101 1001001110 110010101 10110010110 1010101101 101111011001 100100101 10101001010 1001001001 111110101 00100101001 1011010011010 10100100 1111101110 101100101 11111011110 1101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of In No Man's Land;
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  • history of its creation;
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