This is an analysis of the poem On Vimy Ridge that begins with:
On Vimy Ridge four months ago
We lived and fought, my friends and I,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbabcacA cdcdeaeAXababeaeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11111111 11010111 11000101 11100101 010011101 01011111 11011101 11010111 111101001 010101011 010100101 11110111 110100101 01010101 11011101 11011111 11010101 01010101 10111101 11110111 11011101 11010111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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