This is an analysis of the poem The Boys Of The House: For Valentine And Hubert Blake that begins with:

Young martyrs of the war,
Who with your bright eyes star...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddeeee ffdXXd aageeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001 101111 0111 111111 010101 1111 110111 111101 1111 101101 0010101 001001 010111 111101 11111 011101 1011000 1101 110001 010111 1111 0101001 0110111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, to are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase two connects the lines.

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