This is an analysis of the poem Oxford From The Trenches that begins with:
The clouds are in the sky, and a light rain falling,
And through the sodden trench splashed figures come and go,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcac Xded efXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001101110 110101110111 11011101010 11000110011101 100011001110 101001100111001 101010001110 0110110111101 111011111110 1110100011100 1110101010110 11000101110101 1111011101110 11100101011111 01010100101100 01010101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
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.
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