This is an analysis of the poem Weapons Training that begins with:
And when I say eyes right I want to hear
those eyeballs click and the gentle pitter-patter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcdaadeccedfcfdfddfgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 111110101010 01010111010 11110111101 1011011111 10010111101 10011000101 01110011011 11011100101 0111111101 011101101011101 0101011001 01101001001010 1001110101010 1100100100010 010000101101 101010011 01011010111 01011011111110 1111101 011010111 11100101011111 01011010101 1111011111 11111101111 1101011111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1231
- Average number of words per stanza: 240
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Weapons Training;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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