This is an analysis of the poem Within Our Sickening Borders that begins with:
Ignored off the battlefield,
And sent a bill for wounds....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbccXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101 110111 01011101 11101111 0100100 00101001 1110101010 100110 01001001101 01110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Within Our Sickening Borders;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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