This is an analysis of the poem Half-Past Eleven Square that begins with:
There's a town I know in Flanders, an' there ain't much else to say,
But it's pretty much like most towns when the war 'as passed their way;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccbb bbbb ddbb eebb bbbbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110101111101 101011111011111 11011101111101 1011101011101010 101011111010101 001010100011101 1010111010111001 101011100110101 101110101010101 10101010111011 001011100010101 11110100110101 111110111110101 001011101010111 11111111111101 111011101110101 101011011010111 000110101011101 11011101011101 001110101110101 101010101011111 101110111110101 11010101110101 11010100110101 101010101011111 101110101011100 111010101111101 11010100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; an', there's, it, in, for, waitin' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word square at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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