This is an analysis of the poem Where Are You Poets? that begins with:

Where are you, Poets, that a Hero dies
Unsung? He who, when Duty brought too soon... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacdeXcedXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111110111 01001111111 0100010111 100100110 1101011111 10010101111 0100110101 1111101001 01010101010 01001001001 1110000100 1001101101 101010110001 11001111010 1011110101 1101111101 110101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 755
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; he, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and are repeated.

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