This is an analysis of the poem Meetings that begins with:
As up and down I fare by road and street
The mothers of our men-at-arms I meet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba ccaacddeed ffggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 0100111111 111111 111111 1001111111 1111110111 11011011101 110101 111101 10110111001 1100110111 1111010111 11111 0101001 100100101111 1111101101 01000010101 110111 111111 11111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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