This is an analysis of the poem The Mouth-Organ that begins with:
Oh, there ain't no band to cheer us up, there ain't no 'Ighland pipers
To keep our warlike ardure warm round New Chapelle an' Wipers;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc XXbb aXdd XXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101111111010 011111011101110 11110101010111 11001110110111 11110111011101 111110101010101 010111001010101 11001110111111 110111001111110 111110101101010 11110111110111 11101001110101 110101011110010 110001011100010 11010101110101 11001110110101 110101111101011 1101010110101011 111111111100101 11001110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; to, an', 'is, 'e, in, 'em are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'e is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'im is repeated).
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- summary of The Mouth-Organ;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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