This is an analysis of the poem Fly A Clean Flag that begins with:
This I heard the Old Flag say
As I passed it yesterday:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccaaddaaeX ddaaffeeggddaX dXhhbbaaddccaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 1110101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1110101 1111111 1110101 1011111 1010101 0011101 1011101 0010101 10010010 11100111 10110111 1111101 1111101 1011101 1111111 1111101 1001111 1110111 0010111 1111101 1010111 1110111 0010111 1111110 1111110 1110011 1111101 1010101 1011011 1010111 1011101 1011101 0011101 1011101 1010111 1110110 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, have, me, you, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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