This is an analysis of the poem A Monument For The Soldiers that begins with:
A monument for the Soldiers!
And what will ye build it of?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababacdc ceaeXXaf adfdfXcf abcbXaca AbXcXcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010 1101100 11100101111 0100101 111010010 1111111 0010100101 00101100 101011110 101111 110110111 1101101 1110100111 111100 1010100101 1110111 1101010 1010101 101010101 1010101 10101010 10101010 011110111 1010111 10101010 110111 110101111 1010111 01011111 100101 01110101 0011001 01001010 100101 1100111100 0011101 11111010 0101111 110110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, out, our, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, can are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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