This is an analysis of the poem Training that begins with:
Not this week nor this month dare I lie down
In languour under lime trees or smooth smile.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba babXaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011111 0101011111 1111111101 1110111111 1101110101 00110011101 1101010101 11110100101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 9
- 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 is repeated.
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More information about poems by Wilfred Owen
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