This is an analysis of the poem Killed In Action that begins with:
Your ' Youth ' has fallen from its shelf,
And you have fallen, you yourself.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110001 11110110 11010101 11010111 11110111 11011101 10111101 11011101 110101001 11110101 11011101 01011001 01110111 01010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Killed In Action;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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