This is an analysis of the poem Songs For The Soldiers that begins with:
IF songs be sung let minstrels strike their harps
To large and joyous strains, all thunder-winged... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaccaXXbdXefbXfdaebXeXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 0111011101 0101111111 10010100101 1111010101 1101011011 11010101111 1011011101 110101 11010 11010010001 1011111101 010011101 11001010101 1101100101 0101010001 1101111101 1100010011 1101 110101 1101010101 1101110101 11010101001 10111101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1053
- Average number of words per stanza: 187
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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