This is an analysis of the poem Men In Green that begins with:
Oh, there were fifteen men in green,
Each with a tommy-gun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcXc Xded dBfb acgc ddcd aeaege hcbc dBab fcbcXahgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 100101 11001111 110101 11110101 110001 10110101 1010101 11010101 111101 11010001 011101 10110111 110101 11010100 010001 10110101 011101 01010101 101001 11110001 110111 01010101 101111 10110101 100101 11010111 010101 01110101 0100101 11011101 111101 11111111 0010101 10110111 110101 10110101 010111 11011101 111101 10110001 110001 11110101 101001 00110101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, their, and are repeated.
The author used the same words we, they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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