This is an analysis of the poem Ex-Service that begins with:
Derision from the dead
Mocks armamental madness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabXabb cacbaacb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001 1100010 011101 1111010 1101010 111111 1111010 101010 0100110 1101010 1101110 011001 1101010 1101010 1101010 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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