This is an analysis of the poem The Next War that begins with:
War's a joke for me and you,
Wile we know such dreams are true.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bccbbddb efefee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111 1111111 1101 1111110101 1111001111 1001011011 1101110001 1111110101 1111010111 10110011101 1101111001 1111010001 11111100111 11010101010 1110110111 1101111101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, we are repeated.
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