This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Truce that begins with:
Till the tread of marching feet
Through the quiet grass-grown street... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabB ccbB ddbB eebB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010111 0010111 1010111 1010101 1010111 10101001 1010111 0010101 1010001 1010101 1010111 1110110 1010111 0010111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; while is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word while is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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