This is an analysis of the poem With Stopwatch In Hand that begins with:

Berlin, 22 September 1916.
On 17 September one of our ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXd bccb effe egge dhhd aiiaXcdic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110101 11010101 0011010 10100101 001001000 1110110 0011010100 1100010101 0111011101 1111010100 1101010001 1101110001 1111000101 11010001001 1101011111 11000101010 11011101010 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 01110001010 1101110101 0111000101 11010001010 0111011101 11110101010 11110111110 1101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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