This is an analysis of the poem Tommy Atkins' Way that begins with:
He was battle-scarred and ugly with the marks of shot and shell,
And we knew that British Tommy had a stirring tale to tell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbaX ccdd XXXX eeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011100010111 111110101010101 1111111011100001 1110101010101010 101010101110111 1110100101010001 111010100010101 111111101110101 101011101010111 101010100011110 111111101111101 111011001111011 111010101010101 111010100010011 101110101011111 11111010111000010 101010101010101 111010100010101 110111100100101 101010101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; and, he, his, not, word, of, he'd, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not 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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