This is an analysis of the poem With French To Kimberley that begins with:
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun;
The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten to one! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeeXdffcXdd ffggffhhiXdd eeffbbdd bbbbaXiidd aajjbbXaXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,12,8,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011100011101 01011100110101 10010101010100 100001101010101 11010101110111 1101000110101110 11110101011101 11110100010101 11110101111101 01110001110101 11010101110111 01010101010111 01010101110101 01010101010001 010111010100101 110111011101000 11111101110101 11110100010101 01011101110111 110101110111001 11010101111101 11110101110101 011101110101001 011111110010111 1010101111111 01010101111101 01011100110111 01010100111101 0100101001110101 01010100010101 11011101010101 01010101110101 011111011101101 11010101110101 110011111110111 11111111111101 100111011101001 11110100010101 11011101110101 11010101010101 01011101011101 01011111011111 100101111100111 11111101111101010 01011110010101 010101101110111 110101011101001 11110100010101 11110100110111 11010101110101 01010100111101 01010101111111 11111111111101 01011111010111 11100100010110 01010111010101 01010101010101 01110101011000100 11111101111111 11010100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 775
- Average number of words per stanza: 138
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, they, his, from, and, we, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, from, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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