This is an analysis of the poem 'They' that begins with:
The Bishop tells us: 'When the boys come back
'They will not be the same; for they'll have fought...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXX cdcdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110111 1010011111 1011110101 11011100111 110111001 111011111010 11010100101 1111011111 1111011101 1111000111 1111110111 1101011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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.
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- idea of the verse;
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