This is an analysis of the poem A Camp In The Prussian Forest that begins with:

I walk beside the prisoners to the road.
Load on puffed load,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc ddeeeeff aagg hhiiffjj kkccXahah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,4,8,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010100001 1111 11011101 1111001 1011111101 0011 01010011 0110101 0101110101 0101 100101000 100010 0111111101 0011 01011011 110101 1101110111 0100 11001101 010001 1101110101 1101 01111101 01001 1101010111 0111 11011101 100101 0100011101 0101 10011001 011111 10010101101 01101 01100101 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

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