This is an analysis of Preface by Wilfred Owen.

This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak
of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXababcX dcXdXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,7,
  • Metre: 0101011010100011101 00100011111101011010 010110 011 0110101010100 0010001101001 010000010 1110011001010 0001110000 110001 10101101001 10101101010 01101000111 111110110010000110 101011100101101 0101101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

about, to

Anaphora

the