This is an analysis of the poem He's Taken Out His Papers that begins with:

He's taken out his papers, an' he's just like you an' me.
He's sworn to love the Stars and Stripes an' die for it, says he....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa ddXXXaacc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101111111 11010111111011 111011101110111 111010101111101 11010101111111 10011101011101 101110101110111 101000101010101 11010101110101 110101111101101 101110111111111 111010101111101 11010101010101 1010101011111001 111101111111101 111010101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', he's, he, his, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he's, an' are repeated.

    The author used the same word he's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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