This is an analysis of the poem For The Fallen that begins with:
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdad efgf gheh ahhh gcac caXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101010 1011010101 100110100010 10001001 10011110110 1101000101 101000101010 1010110111 11010010101 10110110101 101001011110 110110001 111111111111 11110010001 1010100110010 100100 110101101101 111110101001 111101110011 1101101 111010111101 110101101001 0010110111111 10111001 10111011111 100100101001 10111100010110 001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, they, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, as are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of For The Fallen;
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