This is an analysis of the poem Old Fighting-Men that begins with:
All the world over, nursing their scars,
Sit the old fighting-men broke in the wars--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101011 1011011001 1011011011 1001001001 100101000011 1101011110 1011001011 1001101011 1001011011 1011011101 111101001 1011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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