This is an analysis of the poem An Incident At Cambrai that begins with:
In a by--street, blocked with rubble
And any--way--tumbled stones,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cded afef cXXX dcXc cabX XfdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111010 1101101 01011011 10111 0110010 01010110 11000101 1101010 101101 111111 0101111 11101 11100111 011101 0111110 1111001 10110111 111111 0101001 1010101 01011010 11101101 1110100 1010110 011001001 10100101 1101101 0010010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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