This is an analysis of the poem Stand-To: Good Friday Morning that begins with:

I’d been on duty from two till four.
I went and stared at the dug-out door. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbcdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101100111 111110111 10011101 101101011 11100101 10100101 11101111 10101111 10101111 11100111 110110101 110101111 111101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 505
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

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