This is an analysis of the poem A Song For Soldiers that begins with:
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?
Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdefXcaaacc agghacai agafee bXbjaakX fgX edfaXfcjkjjb hka kkXaXXaXgXXbdkcdaia
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,8,6,8,3,12,3,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 111001111010010 101100110010010010 100110010010010 100111111010110010 1001010010010111010 1100101010101 0100110110101110 1011010101010011 1111000100111111 011100101001010 1111010111101010 10100110110101 11101010010010010 110010010010010110 10011010010001100 010100111011011 1100111010110111 11100100101010010010 110010010101010001 101001111001010 11010101001010 101101101010110 10010111101110 100101111111111 11001000111111010010 10011101010010 11111010011110 1101001001011010 11111111000010010 01001001001011010 0100110001010010 1001010110010100 110011011110010 100011001001010 1010010011000110 100101001010010 1111010101010110 11101011111110 1011111010111110 11001111010010010 1000111110010010 010100101101010 1111101001010110 1010111101111011110 11001010111001010 101010010010010010 10101001111010110 1001010011011011 101101111001010 1001010010010010 1011100110101010 10010101111000 0101010111011011 1100100101110001 111101111010010 11001001010010010 1101110110011010 110011011101010010 010110111111010 0100101011001010 11101111011010 1100010010110110011 1010111010010110 110110101111110011 10011010110110010 110010101010010100 1101010001111110 011110110101010 11010110110110110 100100101001110 11111010100111010 0111101001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, or, and, song, with, let, their, his, he, them, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whether, we, down, the are repeated.
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