This is an analysis of the poem Oxford In War—time that begins with:
What alters you, familiar lawn and tower,
Arched alley, and garden green to the gray wall... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc cdcd efef gdgd fgfg gggg fhfh ijij kgkg ecec hfXf glgl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101110 11011010011 0100101011110 1010010111 0101111111 01110101001 01010010100 0001010001 1101010101 101111011001 0100111001 1011110101 0010111011 00101011101 10001101001 1011001101 0111010101 0101110101 1101111101 1101110101 1101101101 1110010101 0111010111 11001010111 1101011100 1101101111 101010010100 0111011111 10001100101 1001010111 1101101101 1101100100 1101111001 0100011101 111000011 10001100101 1100011101 0101010011 1100010111 1001100100 1101010101 01010010101 10011010101 0101100101 10011100101 1111110111 110110111100 01001100101 1111111101 0100010101 1101010011 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, she, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, she are repeated.
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