This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Soldiers that begins with:
What of the faith and fire within us
Men who march away... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABBBAAB CBbbcCB DBbbXDB DEeeXDEXABBBAAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110011 11101 10111 10101 010111111 1001110011 11101 000101111 100101 111101 0111001 111001111 000101111 100101 111111110 11111 10110 10111 0011111 111111110 11111 01101010 100101 11101 10101 11001100 01101010 100101 101110011 11101 10111 10101 010111111 101110011 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, you are repeated).
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