This is an analysis of the poem To One Of Our Wounded that begins with:
Old Man, by your broad contented grin
And the gleam in your quiet eyes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcXXXdadaeceXcacacXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 10101101 1110101100 00110011 1110110111 1011111 0011011101 0011100 01101001001 0010101 1111010101 0100111 1101100101 1010101 1010100101 101000010 110111111 10100101 1111100111 00110101 1100100101 10111101 111011011101 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 891
- Average number of words per stanza: 178
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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