This is an analysis of the poem Soldiers that begins with:
Brother.
I saw you on a muddy road...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaXefdgeabcX bXdcfegXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 11110101 01 1101010 1010111010 110 11111 101110110 01010 11111111 1111110101 110101010 11110 101010110 1111 11011 0101011100 111111 00010 11101110 10111 01111111 101110 101111111 011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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- summary of Soldiers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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