This is an analysis of the poem To The Others that begins with:
This was the gleam then that lured from far
Your son and my son to the Holy War:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXd eece ffdd aaggXeebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010111101 1111100101 1111110101 0010011000101 1101011100 1101011101 1011001110 001101010101 111110101 1001011101 1101000111 1111001110 1011010101 1011010101 1011010101 0101111101 100101101 1011000101 111111101 111111101 111111111 111111101 1111110101 0010011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; son, dream, of, and, your, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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More information about poems by Katharine Tynan
- Analysis of To One In Grief
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- Analysis of The Vision: (Katia: Easter Sunday, 1916)