This is an analysis of the poem Armistice: To His Dead Cobber From The Sentimental Bloke that begins with:
I'm sittin' 'ere, Mick - sittin' 'ere today,
Feelin' 'arf glum, 'arf sorter - reverent, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbc dXcX babaeXeX eeXc fgbgbdd dd XceX fhfhibib hhaa hchc jdjd X bhbhklkl eefX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,7,2,4,8,4,4,4,1,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1011110100 1011010111 1101110100 1101010101 0101010111 1001010101 1001010001 10010111101 1111111111 1011111111 0101011101 0111011101 1111010101 1001011101 1011010101 1111010111 1111111101 1101011111 1111011110 1011011101 0101010111 1001011011 1111110001 1101 111101 1111011111 1111111111 1111111111 1010111101 1101010011 0111011111 0111110110 1011011101 1101110111 01001010111 0111011001 0111011101 0111010111 1101110000 1001001101 1011010111 1111010001 1011011101 1111111101 1001011101 1101101101 1111111111 1011110001 1100110100 1101101111 0101110101 1111001101 1101011111 1001110101 1011010101 1111010101 10 1111101111 0101010111 1111011101 0111000101 1111111101 1101011101 1101011101 1011111111 1001011111 1111011111 0111111101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, in, an', it, somethin' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', it, the, on, somethin' are repeated.
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