This is an analysis of the poem The Trenches that begins with:

Endless lanes sunken in the clay,
Bays, and traverses, fringed with wasted herbage, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabaaXXc Xbdefccac dfXggh eXahiihhaXea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,6,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110001 111001001010 110110111001 10111001 100101 110101010011 101011101001 001011001011001 010010100 10110101 01011001011010 1110100100 100 111101 01001011 11001111 110010010 110101 1001010010 10110010111 111011 001001010111 10011110010 1111101 110111111 01011001101 111101 110010 11111011 001001111101 11110110011 01010000100 0111 10101110 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Trenches;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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