This is an analysis of the poem The War Films that begins with:
O living pictures of the dead,
O songs without a sound, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa bcbcXc dbdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 110101 11011101 100101 10011101 011111 1111001010 1111111 0101101010 010111 101011101 010001 10011111 011101 1101101001 111111 110110101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, have, we, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, we, his are repeated.
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