This is an analysis of the poem General Pershing that begins with:
He isn't long on speeches. At the banquet table, he
Could name a dozen places where he would much rather be....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc ffggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101010101 11010101111100 111111101110011 1110100011110101 111100101011101 101000101011101 111000100010101 111110100010001 111010101110101 111000101100101 111111101010101 111010101011101 111010100010111 1000110101010101 101111101110111 001010111110001 101010101010101 111011101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 388
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, he's, of, and, to, his, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word there at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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