This is an analysis of the poem The Army Mules that begins with:
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go
With his roaring soaring aeroplane and his bombs for the blokes below, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggXXbbddee ddhhgggggg ddhhddXXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010010111101111 00101010010110101 10011110011001101 111101011101010101 11010011111100101 10101001011100111 1110011010111100111 111001001010010101 11100101011110101 11100101011100101 11110111100100111 1010011010010101 01010010110100101 0100101110101101 01010010110100101 111011010100101001 010100100110110101 1101010010010010100101 01001001011010011 110110010111100101 0111001010110101 1011100100111100101 1011101011010101 10101001011011101 11010010110110101 001011111110111001 01111010111101101 111001101110101101 10101001011101001 10100010010101001001 0011110101100001101 11101101011111101 1011001111010111 10101111010011101 01011001010100101 10101010111100111 1011011110110101001 110010101101011011 11011010110100111 0101101010111110 0000101011110101 0100101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1021
- Average number of words per stanza: 198
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, over, he, may, his, like, of, to, game, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, and are repeated.
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