This is an analysis of the poem Bored? that begins with:
Bored with the war, Sir? Weary and worn and old?
May be. But be thankful you spend your nights in a bed:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa ababX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011101111 1010101111001 111100111011 110100100101 10011110101 11011100111 11111100101 10011111101 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
The author used the same word bored at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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