This is an analysis of the poem A Meditation In Time Of War that begins with:

FOR one throb of the artery,
While on that old grey stone I Sat... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 11100100 11111111 10011101 11110100 110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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