This is an analysis of the poem Soldiers To Pacifists that begins with:
NOT ours to clamor shame on you,
Nor fling a bitter blame on you,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccbcccdeeedfffgbbbgeeebhXhb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11010111 11010111 1101010 111101001 11110101 01100101 0111010 01010101 110010101 11110101 10110010 01010101 110000111 11110101 1111010 10111101 110010101 11000101 01001010 01010101 10010101 111011101 1011010 10110101 110010101 01000101 1101010 11111101 10011110 010101001 01000010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1051
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; you, on, to, us, of, way are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, us, way are repeated).
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