This is an analysis of The Turkish Trench Dog by Geoffrey Dearmer.
Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near
The Turkish lines. Above, the mocking stars…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeXbebbddffegeg
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 1111111101 0101010101 10001010111 1100110000101 110101 11001010101 1101110001 101101 1111010101 0101110111 0101010101 1111110100 1110110101 1101010111 0111001011 1101010101 1011010111 1101110101 1101110101 1101010111 11110100001 1101000101 1101110101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
