This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Ii Dulce Et Decorum Est that begins with:
Let the boy toughened by military service
learn how to make bitterest hardship his friend,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cXde fXdg hiXg cfgX Xbbi acXe Xfhhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101101010 11011001001 110100101 101010010 10010010001 01001011010 010011010 1011011101 11100010010 01010110001 1001011110 1101010010 01110011110 11101001011 101101001 101011011 10110001001 11001001110 110101101 1001001001 10110010111 01010110101 010110101 1010110101 110010111010 10101101110 101000101 0111110101 01011010100 01001000010 111010010 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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