This is an analysis of the poem We Fought For - South Of The Walls that begins with:
Died for - North of the Ramparts’(to an old tune)
We fought for Mulberry Springs...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXbbXcXcdbXcdbXccaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100111 11111001 1111010 11101001 1111111 10010011 01101011 11101010 1110101 11011 110110 110101 11101 1011111 1010001 1111111 1111011 110101 011100101 01111101 01110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.
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