This is an analysis of the poem Soldiers At Peace that begins with:
Mourn not for these, the children of the spring :
On Flemish plains and far Aegean sand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeebab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11110100001 1101110101 1111111100 1111010101 1111010111 1101101101 0101010000 1101010111 0101010100 1101010111 10011001001 010101011 1101011100 10110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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