This is an analysis of the poem Stew that begins with:
If you 'ave lost your 'aversack, your kit-bag or your pipe,
Your 'ousewife, soap or oily rag with which you clean your 'ipe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa aaaa bbaa bbaX XXaa bbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111100111111 110011101011111 11110111110111 11100100110001 00001111011101 01111101100101 10111101110101 01010101111001 11011101110001 11011101110111 11011111111101 11011101110101 11110101110001 01011101110101 10010101111101 11010100011101 111111011101010 001101010011010 01110101111101 11010101111111 11010101110101 11010111011101 110101001111110 11010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; your, or, we, it, get, our, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, we are repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word stew at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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