This is an analysis of the poem A Letter From The Front that begins with:
I was out early to-day, spying about
From the top of a haystack -- such a lovely morning -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabac dcebfdfXeXXXdXXba XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,17,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011001 0010011101010 11110010101 11010100111 01101001001 001101101111010 0010110010011 1111111010010 1101110010001 1111010111010 111011110010 111101101011001 111100100110 01010100001110 1101100 1111010 111001011101 111010101010 011110 1110110 0101010001001 1011001101011 100110110010 10110010010010 110111111010 1011110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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