This is an analysis of the poem The Honor Roll that begins with:
The boys upon the honor roll, God bless them all, I pray!
God watch them when they sleep at night, and guard them through the day....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb Xadd eedd ffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101110111 11011111110101 11110111010101 11111101110111 11110101110111 01010101010111 11001101110111 11110101010011 11110111011101 11010101111101 11111101110101 01011101010101 11000101110101 11110101011111 11110110010011 11010101110101 01011111010101 1101110101011 11011101011101 11111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, boys, them, we, of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, no are repeated.
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- summary of The Honor Roll;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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