This is an analysis of the poem The Unlucky Dip that begins with:
Yes, yes, my boy, by all means train for war.
Do knots and splices, morse and semaphore;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddeeffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111111 1111011100 1101110101 0101010101 1001010001 1111010111 1111010111 1101111101 1001011101 0101110101 1101100101 0101011101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 681
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, you, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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