This is an analysis of the poem Peace Has Packed On A Fast Track And Gone that begins with:

Sad attacks are stacking to leave nerves on all backs.
With increasing sickness shown unmasking this as a fact, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABbABbC DAEB DdFA DAEBgDed DAFA fXbb DAEB DAFA ABbCfC dAEBgD DAEBgDedXdAEBgDed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,6,6,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110011111 00101011000101 1 101110011111 00101011000101 1 111101111 11010 010101 11010 011001 11100010 0101010 11101110 011111 11010 010101 11010 011001 1 101110110 1 101110110 11100010 010111 11101110 011111 1101010 100101 111001001 01101 11010 010101 11010 011001 11100010 010111 11101110 011111 101110011111 00101011000101 1 111101111 01010 111101111 1110010 010101 11010 011001 1 101110110 11010 010101 11010 011001 1 101110110 1 101110110 110010 010101 11010 011001 1 101110110 1 101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    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; people, peace are repeated.

    The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines people, backs are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word trouble at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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