This is an analysis of the poem Pilgrims that begins with:
For oh, when the war will be over
We'll go and we'll look for our dead;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXXc dedefcfc fgfgXhfhXahahfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010 11111111 111011010 101001001 111011010 11111001 111010110 11101101 1110111110 01001101 110010110 1111001 110111010 11101001 110010110 1010001011 110110110 11101001 111110010 01101011 111010110 11001001 111110010 11101001 111010010 11101001 110011010 11001101 110010110 11001101 110011010 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we'll, and, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we'll, and are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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