This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: Decoration Day that begins with:

Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest
On this Field of the Grounded Arms,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede efef ghgh ibib
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 10100101 111101 110101 11110101 110011 1010101 10101001 100101 111101 101101 111111 100111 100101 010101 000101 111111 010110 110001 110101 110101 1101010 1101000 0100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; no, rest are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.

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