This is an analysis of the poem Mafeking (May 16th, 1900) that begins with:
Flag that has flown o'er a thousand fields victorious,
Flag that art first on the land and the seas,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcb XdcdXeXe XXfXcgbbg fcfcfdXd fhfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,9,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001010100 1111101101 1111001001100 1010011010111010 10101101111 1011111010101010 11101110101 101010110101100 10111010110101 101011110101010 00101010110111 1011101110111011 11011101001 1011101010101110 101010101001 111100101000 11111010001 111110101110 11011110100 11101011010101 10101011011 11101110 10110010 101010101011 111110111010 11110010101 001001111111110 011011110101 1011111010101110 11011010111 1010011010111000 00111110001 1011110111 1011110101 100110010101 100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, of, men, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words flag, and, men, will, by, honour are repeated.
The author used the same word men at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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