This is an analysis of the poem Cited For Their Sacrifices that begins with:
Found to be loyal to the cause of deed?
Yet left with mixed feelings, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbccadad bXXX cc XbcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001000101 110110 011010 11101101 11010100100100 111000100 101001101001 11101110 101010001 1010101000 1111101010111010 110111111100101 11111011011 010110 1 0010010001001001 1 110 1 111 1111000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you are repeated.
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- summary of Cited For Their Sacrifices;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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