This is an analysis of the poem The Army Surgeon that begins with:
Over that breathing waste of friends and foes,
The wounded and the dying, hour by hour,-... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccaacacaXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010111 010101010110 00010111010 1101011101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110001 1111001101 0101101101 1101010101 0101011111 01010100100 1111110101 100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and is repeated.
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