This is an analysis of the poem Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind that begins with:
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcDA eeBffb aXaDA eaBXXbXccDA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101101 011101110101 1010011101 111 101 110100100 1011111 11010111 0101101010 10010111010 011010101 11111101 0111010001010 1101111 111 101 110100100 10010111 11010111 110010010 11000100010 1011010101 10111101010 101101011 111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; of is repeated.
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