This is an analysis of the poem I'Ll Go And Be A Sodger that begins with:
O WHY the deuce should I repine,
And be an ill foreboder?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 10111000 01011111 1110010 11111101 1101100 11011101 1110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sodger at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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