This is an analysis of the poem Men Of Verdun that begins with:
There are five men in the moonlight
That by their shadows stand;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bbaX Xded Xbaab aaca fgbg fahha dgdg XaXa hiei
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011 111111 1101110 111101 1111011 101101 101110011 11010010 00101110 111111 0101110 1100101 0101011 111101 11010101 110010101 0100101 0110011 111101 1101111 111101 1111110 111101 01110101 110111 0111110 101101 110000101 10011111 110101 11011010 110111 0010010101 010101 11011000 100101 10000101 0100101 11001010 110101 1001010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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- history of its creation;
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