This is an analysis of the poem Prayer Of A Soldier In France that begins with:
1 My shoulders ache beneath my pack
2 (Lie easier, Cross, upon His back).... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb aa cc bb dd ee ff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111 1110010101 111011111 111010111 111111111 111111111 111110101 111010111 111110101 111000101 111010111 101111101 111110111 111010111 111110101 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
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