This is an analysis of the poem Between The Battles that begins with:
Let us bury him here
Where the maples are red!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba a bba ba aXb abb cX baac Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,3,2,3,3,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 101011 101 111101111001001101 101101 101011 111 111011011011011011 111111 111011 101 11101111110111 1001 101101 101101 101 11110101100101 1011 111101 101011 101 10110111101110 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; he is repeated.
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