This is an analysis of the poem 1914 Iii: The Dead that begins with:
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbbX cbcdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010011 11011101101 11011110111 1101011101 1101110000 01111110001 1111111110 1111110100 1101111111 1001111111 1011110101 1100100101 1100101101 1111001100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word blow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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