This is an analysis of the poem Memorials On The Slain At Chickamauga that begins with:
Happy are they and charmed in life
Who through long wars arrive unscarred... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXacdc edeXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10111101 111101100 110101010 0110000110 010101100 110101 11011011 10110101001 1111001101 1110010001 1001010101 1101010101 00110101 0101000100 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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