This is an analysis of the poem Crosses [all Your Broken War-Spent Heroes] that begins with:
All your broken war-spent heroes,
Lord of War and Grief-you pay...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcecafafacecXadadeaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 1011111 00101010 1110111 10111110 1110110 10101110 1110001 10101010 1010101 10111111 1010111 11101010 0111101 11101110 1011101 10101010 11100101 10101010 1111101 10101010 1110101 10110010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; at, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
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