This is an analysis of the poem A Thrush In The Trenches that begins with:
Suddenly he sang across the trenches,
vivid in the fleeting hush...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdXX XcXc dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101010 1000101 1011101110 011101 1001111110 111101 1101011000 101000 110101010 11101 1101111110 011111 110111010 1111101 111100111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, and are repeated.
The author used the same word suddenly at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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