This is an analysis of the poem Cambrai And Marne that begins with:
Before our trenches at Cambrai
We saw their columns cringe away.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb ccdd eeff bbee bbfX ggaX ggXg ffee Xdgg hhii ffaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110 11110101 11110111 01110101 01101101 11000101 11011101 111100101 01010101 01010111 010110011 01010101 01110101 10001101 11111111 010110001 11110101 11010101 11011101 010101000 11010101 11010101 010101011 11110010 01110101 11110111 11001111 01010011 11111111 110110101 11111111 110010111 111101010 111100010 11011101 11011111 11111101 01111101 11010111 01011111 1100111001 11111011 11010101 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, our are repeated.
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