This is an analysis of the poem When The French Band Plays that begins with:
THERE'S a military band that plays, on Sunday afternoons,
In a certain nameless city's quaint old square....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacX dedebfbf gbgXhihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111111101 00101010111 011010100010101 11101110101 1011101011001 11101010101 11110101010101 101110111000 1010101110011101 10100011101 01110101010101 01101001111 11011100010111 10101110111 111111101110101 10110010111 101010101110111 11101010111 101010101110101 101010100110 111010101110111 00101111111 101011101011101 100101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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