This is an analysis of the poem Any Soldier To His Son that begins with:
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?
Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack floor. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacXdXee ffaXgghhhhddeegghhcXaa iiaahhXX ffjjXXffcchhhhkkll aaffggaaggccee fXjjcchhmXXggffffmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,22,8,18,14,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10111000111 111010101010101 11010101110101 11011111011111 110101001110101 11010111111101 101011111010101 11101110111110010 1010010101011101 101000100010000110110 101010101010101 10101010110111 11011101010001 11110101101101 11011101010101 101011101110101 11010111011101 101000100010111 11010111010101 101010101010111 1101110011011 01010101011111 1101100010111 0101101011110111 11011101010111 101010101011101 111011100011111 101110111010111 11010101111101 11011111110001 11011100010011 01001101110101 11011101010101 101110111011101 110111010100001 10111010111101 11011101111101 11010101010101 11011100110101 001011101111111 101011101011101 101111101000101110 11111011111111 111010111110101 11011100011111 11010111110101 11011101110111 111110101110101 11010101010001 101011101010111 11010101010111 11000111110111 11010111010111 111110101011111 11010111110101 101111100111101 1101010110111 11011111010101 110101010101001 1101110010101 111011100010101 1010101010101 101001011101010101 101110101111101 11010101110101 11011101011001 11010111110111 11011101010111 11010101010101 11010010110101 11011111010101 111100100010001 11010101010001 11011001011001 1110101010100001 101000010011100110 111010101110011 111011101110101 100101010110110111 111110101110101 101010100110001 101110101011111 101010101011101 1110101000110010 1100010110111 11010101110111 011111011110 10111101111111 11011101110101 11011101111101 01011011110101 1101010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 825
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, learned, and, us, of, with, for, them, never, where, in, endless, they, may, by, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, where, may, by are repeated.
The author used the same words i, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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