This is an analysis of the poem Here Died that begins with:

There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home,
For he hears a voice in the future call, and he trains for the war to... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb bbbb ccdd ccee ffaa gghh iijj eeii gXkk Xcee bbff llmm nncc aabb ddeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11001011111100111 111010010111110101 010010010111100111 11011010111110101 1111011111111111 1011110101111101 00101001111010101 011101010011101 10110110010111111 010010110110100111 01110011110101101 0100001101011101101 0111001111110101 110100111111111 1101101011100111 111010110111100111 00101001011110101 1101011011110101 1101101011010101 111010111100100101 11001011110101001 01110010111011001 1101101111110111 1110010010010100111 11111001001110101 101001001010010101 1101101011010101 111010110011100101 110110101101101011 111010010110100111 1101001111111111 110011011100111111 1101011011100101 111110111001011010 11111010011110101 01111010011010101 1111001111011100 0101101011010101 11010111111101101 1101001010101011 10100111111100111 1111001010010101 11101001011010101 101001011110100101 10011011011010111 10111111100111101 11001111011010101 00111101101111101 111110110111100111 10101001011010101 1011100101111101 0110111001101111 11100111111010101 11101011010111101 1111101111110111 11011111100100101 11001011011101111 11101001001100101 01001011111011101 0010010101110011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, and, or, over, to, of, they, in, where, with, by, their, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words they, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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