This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of A Soldier that begins with:
Life contracts and death is expected,
As in season of autumn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab XcX XadXbdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110010 1010010 0101 11101011100 01001010 1011 101011010100 10010010 1011 1011110010 0111001 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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