This is an analysis of the poem What Have The Cavalry Done? that begins with:

What have the cavalry done?
Cantered and trotted about, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabbXaccaadddebbXX ffaaXggaahhiideaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001 10011001 1001001 1001001 1110100101 100111101 111 100101 0100100101 010100101 1101001 110101 101001 10101 110001111 1010100101 110111 1001011 110101 10101010 1110111001 0010010101101 10101101 101100111 101010100 100100111 10011011 100101101 100101101 11011101 110101101 10100100 10101100 10101101 11101001 1111101101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tramp, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words battlin', never are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines done is repeated).

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