This is an analysis of the poem Epitaphs Of The War that begins with:
1914-18
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X XX a bb b cc b dd e ffggffaa h iicc j kk g bb e aaii X ll jX bfbf k d ikiX X mmnn X lmlX h didi b Xgdd b kgkg X bhbh b ll X nnXa b dX m gg b ooccpp i aqaqlglggmgm a gkgjakajk X gkgk b gggg a kgkg j ggkj X ggjj f kakkaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,8,1,4,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,2,2,4,1,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,2,1,6,1,12,1,9,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,6,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 10000010000 0101010011010110 01010111011110 010 1001010101 1111010101 01 11111101111111 101101110011111 1101 1111011101 1001010111 11 1010101 1000101 0110011 1010011 1111101 1010111 1110111 0111110 010 1011010101 0101010101 0101111111 0111110111 111001 010011011110110 11000111010001 010 1111111101 1110111101 1 1111111101 1111011101 1111010101 1101010101 01110 1001101101 1111111111 10000100 01110 0111111111 1111111101 1111110101 1001001111 101000100 1 110111 1001111 1001101 0011111 1 0101001111 0111010101 1101001111 1111111101 010 1100100111011101 011111111011011 1010011111111 10101101110111110100 0010 101100111 001111 10010101 110101 1101 1011011110 1011110101 0101010101 1101011101 0011 11010011101111 0100101011100111 100101111101101 1111101011101111 10101001 100111001 01110 01110111 10110 1010 1111110101 00101001001 010100 1001111111101 1110111111111 111011011101010 11011111110111 100101010 0101100111 1101011101 101 01010111 10011101 0110 11111111 11110101 11111101 11110111 11111101 11010101 010 011100111 110111 11010111 111001 1011011111 011111 11111101 011101 11110111 110101 11110111 010011 00100 10111010 01101 101110010 01101 1110011 1111101 1010111 101 1011101 0101100 1001101011010010 1011011101001 10111110010010010 01101011001101 0100010 11111101 010101 110001111 111111 1101 1101001 10001101 11101111 1101111 01111 1010111 1001101 1011101 1110101 11100 1111010101 1101111101 1011010101 1101010101 10001 1110101 1111001 101100 111101 00101101 111011 011 1111010 001111 110101 010111 101101 110101 110111 011111 110101 110001 110100 110001 111111 110100 111001 010100 1100100 11111100111111 11010101010101 11011111111111 11011101010101 10 100100100101001 10110 1101011110 1111011111 1111011111 1010110001 100 1010001001010100 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 75
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 226
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, which, he, my, slain, because, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, though, none are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines journalists is repeated).
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