This is an analysis of the poem A Requiem that begins with:
_For Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports_
When, after storms that woodlands rue,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbaabdXaaXddddeccXefecgfgdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,30,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 11011111 01011001 0101110101 11111101 100100101 010100101 010010100 0101110101 11010101 110101010 1 10010101 0101110 1001 10100111 01010101 101100111 010101001 11010001 100100101 1111110 101 10110101 10111101 10010111 110010001 1101111101 11110111 101111110 1
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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