This is an analysis of the poem In Flanders Field that begins with:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba aabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 01010101 01010111 11111001 01110101 11010101 11011101 11111111 11011111 0101 11110001 01010111 01010101 01110111 11111101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fields at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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