This is an analysis of the poem At The Un-National Monument Along The Canadian Border that begins with:

This is the field where the battle did not happen,
where the unknown soldier did not die....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccb dadee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 000110100110 100110011 00011111 111001 10100101001 11101101 0101101010 1101101101 1010111111 1101010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; where is repeated.

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