This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Soldier's Wifes. that begins with:
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At last! In sight of home again, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaBccCB X bbbdeeeX X fffgXXdg XXaaaBccCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 0101 11011101 111111 11010101 1101 11110101 110001 1 11011100 1100 11110100 110100 111011111 0111 11111111 1101000 1 11111111 1111 11111111 1101110 10011000 1100 111110100 1111010 1 111110101 1101 11100101 111111 11110101 0101 11110101 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; again, from, us, to, and, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, should are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again, us, them, you, more are repeated).
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