This is an analysis of the poem A Terre (Being The Philosophy Of Many Soldiers) that begins with:
Sit on the bed. I'm blind, and three parts shell.
Be careful; can't shake hands now; never shall.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb bccbdd deeccffg ghhffb biijjiikkke ieiiccllXemm nnnhhjbhhb icc iicXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,8,6,11,12,10,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 0101111101 11110001110 1101011101 1101110011 1101110101 0101110111 1111010111 11001010111 01011111001 0111010111 1101110111 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 10110101110 10110101010 11111111010 11000111110 1111111111 0111010111 10101100111 01111011011 1111111111 11010110111 10101110011 1001011111 11111101110 11111101010 0101011100 01010110111 1111100111 1111110011 1100011111 1101011001 1111110111 11110111 1001111111 1101110111 1111010101 1011011111 1101110101 1001010100111 11010101110 1011110101 0101011101 1011001111 0111110111 1101001001 1101010111 1111100101 1101010111 11000111010 1101111111 1101011111 1111011111 1011111111 1111110111 1011011101 1101111101 11010110011 0111111001 1101111101 1011010101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, and, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word less is repeated.
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