This is an analysis of the poem Wounded that begins with:
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day,
With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeff babagcgchchcff cecegbgbibibdjdjfifihchcbkbkhchccXXchlhlmgmgbkbXjnjnoeoecc hhhhhahabpbpmmXkikieemehhhhaaha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,58,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011010101 0101010111 1011011111 11000010101 1011011110 1011110001 0101010111 1101010101 01010110101 0111110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111001001 1011011101 1101010111 1001110101 1101111001 1101110111 1111010101 1111010111 1101010100 1001011111 1101000101 1011111101 1111110111 1111110101 1111010001 1111110111 1001010111 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111101 1101111111 1101001101 1111010101 1101010001 1101111101 1111110101 1111110101 01110111010 01010010101 11110111010 1111011111 0111011111 1101010101 0101010101 11111101101 0111111101 1101110101 0101011111 1101110101 1111110101 11011110101 111011101 1101111101 1111110111 0101110101 0111000101 11101011101 100101111010 1101010110 0101010101 1101111101 1111110101 111010111 1111110101 0101010101 1101001101 1101110011 0111111111 1101011101 1101110101 1101110101 1101111101 1110101010 1111010111 11011111010 1101110101 11110110111 0111110111 1101111111 0101010111 0101011101 11110100 1101110101 1101010111 0110010111 0111010101 0101010001 1101010111 0001110111 1101011111 1001100101 1111110101 1101010111 11110101101 0111010111 0101010001 1111010101 0101010111 0101011111 1101110111 0101011101 1101110101 0101011101 1101110111 1100110111 0101110101 1100110101 1111011110 1101010101 1101100111 1111011111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1072
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, of, you, and, more, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you, a, i've, it are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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