This is an analysis of the poem Sixteen Dead Men that begins with:
O BUT we talked at large before
The sixteen men were shot,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbabdebeXeffdfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 001101 11110111 110111 111111001 010101 11111101 1100101 11010101 110111 10110011 100101 11111010 111101 11111111 110111 11001111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 551
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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