This is an analysis of the poem Girl To A Soldier On Leave that begins with:

Girl To A Soldier On Leave
Love! You love me — your eyes... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaBCX dbea XXda bfeX Xabf XXXX aBCX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011 111111 111111 11100111 111110 1111010 111110 1010101 111111 1011010 01100 110101110 010101 1011011 1111 1010101 10111 1010101 1010011 1010101 11111 011100101 101111 11010111 10100110 111111 111111 11100111 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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