This is an analysis of the poem Memorial Day For The War Dead that begins with:
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
the grief of all your losses to their grief,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcdc eeXed Xfbecb ffeXX aXgfX dXe gXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,5,5,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001101111 0101110011 10001011111 100101110100 111011101110 111110010100 111111 01110100101 10010111000100 11010110111 01100111100010 01001101011 10101010 01110101 10100100010101 10001111110 11010101 010101111101 0110101101 001010001 001010011 0101001010 01101100100111 0100010100 100100100111 110101100 1010011 01110100010 110110010 100101101 011110011001 1010001101001 10010111000100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, a are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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