This is an analysis of the poem Repression Of War Experience that begins with:
Now light the candles; one; two; there’s a moth;
What silly beggars they are to blunder in ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcXdef daaagXfcfadfdggXfeffedff bafegXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,24,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111001 11010110100 1111010101 1111010101 11111111011 1001110111 0111010101 11010100101 1111110101 1011110101 111111 1101 11100010101 01000100101 1101011101 1101010011 10110110111 1011111111 110010101011 1111110111 1111010001 0101111111 11111111111 11000101010 101110111110 1001011101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 11001011111 11001110101 1111010101 110110100111 11011101011 1111111101 1111111101 110011111011 11100111010 110110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 614
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, in, thud, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
The author used the same word now 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 rain is repeated).
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