This is an analysis of the poem Keep The Home-Fires Burning that begins with:
Verse:
They were summoned from the hill-side, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc Xddd a DDEFDDGF a dXXa fbXX aXDDEFDDGF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,8,1,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10100011 1010001 10101010 1010111 11110110 1010101 11111010 1010101 10 1011010 111110 1111101 1101 101010 101110 1011011 10111 1 10111010 1010010 111110010 1011111 11101010 0010111 10101110 0010101 10 1011010 111110 1111101 1101 101010 101110 1011011 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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