This is an analysis of the poem From The Dug-Out; A Memory Of Gallipoli that begins with:
It was my home, not ringed with roses blowing,
Nor set in meadows where cool waters croon;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaab cdcdeed afafeeX fcfcXec ababggb dhdhXXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101010 1101111101 11010111110 1101001111 10110001010 1101001010 100101 11110101110 1111011111 01110101010 0101010101 11111100110 11010001010 110111 11010101110 1111010101 11010101010 0101111101 11110111010 11110011010 010111 10111111100 1001001101 111101101001 1111010101 111101001100 11110011111 010101 11110111110 1111000101 11111111110 1100110101 10011101110 01011001010 111101 10101111010 1111010111 11010111010 0111000101 111101100100 01111101110 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, and, it, my, i, that, in are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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