This is an analysis of the poem By The Road To The Air Base that begins with:
The calloused grass lies hard
Against the cracking plain:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe ghhg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 010101 100101 011111 111111 010101 110101 110110 011101 1101001 110101 010111 111101 110101 110111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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