This is an analysis of the poem For The Airmen that begins with:
THOU who guidest the swallow and wren,
Keep the paths of the flying men! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bX cc dd ee ff XX gg hh dd XX bb bX ii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001011 10100101 100101001 1110011100 1100111001 1010110100 11111111 110101101 111001010 011011010 10100101 110011011 11101001 1111110 0100101001 11110111 111101111 10100101011 11100111 010101101 111001110 101110101 10111111 111100011 11111101 010100101 111001010 111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; thou, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thou, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word thy at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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