This is an analysis of Warbrides by Nina Murdoch.

There has been wrong done since the world began.
That young men should go out and die in war,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cccc cdcd eeeX Xafa cgcgXfefe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1101110101 1111111101 11110011011 1010011101 0001101101 1101011101 1100011111 11111011001 0001110101 1101111101 1111100101 110010000101 0001110101 0111111101 01011100101 0100110101 01110010011 0101001111 0101010101 0101110001 0001111101 1101111101 1101001111 1011011101 0001001011 1111010111 1101011101 1101111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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