This is an analysis of the poem To Any Army Wife that begins with:
To any army wife, in Sardis:
Some say a cavalry corps,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xab XXb ccc aaX aXX XXb XcX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101010 1101001 1100101 0011011 0111010 1111111 1110110 0010010 1101111 01000111 1110111 11110010 1000010 1101101 1110101 11000111 10101011 0110111 1110011 1111110 0101110 1011100 10 110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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