This is an analysis of the poem Country At War that begins with:
And what of home--how goes it, boys,
While we die here in stench and noise?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccffaaffbbgghhhhbbbbiijjkkbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11110111 11111101 10011101 11011111 11010011 01010111 11111101 011101110 111101110 11011111 10010101 11010111 11101101 011010101 11011101 11010101 01110101 10110111 10011101 10110101 11111101 010000101 100110111 11111000 11010101 11000101 1110001 01010111 10010101 101100011 10011101 110000110 11110111 11010111 11110101 11110101 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1350
- Average number of words per stanza: 243
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, kill are repeated.
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