This is an analysis of the poem The War In The Air that begins with:
For a saving grace, we didn't see our dead,
Who rarely bothered coming home to die ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcc dbaa XXdd XXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101110111 1101010101 11010111 001101001 1001111011 010010001001 1111001001 110001 1111110101 110110111011 1101010001 1100001 110010111 1011111101 00100101111 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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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- summary of The War In The Air;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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