This is an analysis of the poem Enemy Conscript that begins with:
What are we fighting for,
We fellows who go to war?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXXXddeX ffggeehhiiddXX jjkkeecX ffffeehhjj eekkjjjjbbllff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,8,10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1101101 101101 1110101 100111 101001 101101100 1101101 111001 11001110 101101 101101 0101111 100010010 00011101 100001 101001 101101 00111001 10101101 110101 11110101 1111111 111001 1100001 01101001 00111101 00111101 1100101 0011111 101011 111001 001011001 101101 10001011 100101000 1111011 0110101 1101101 1101001 1110001 100111 100111 101101 1001001 101011 111111 1101101 1101111 111111 1101111 1110101 1100101 111101 1101111 00100101 1110101 1101001 1101011 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Enemy Conscript;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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