This is an analysis of the poem Hannah Armstrong that begins with:

I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sake
To discharge my sick boy from the army;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbcdXeaXbXXXeXdXaXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101011111 0011110010 11011010 1110111110 1110011010 110111001 11101010100 111111010011 1111011101 1011111 1011101111101 1111101010 110111110100 101011100111 1010111011 0101101101011 00100 1100101110 1111111001 110101101 110011101 100100101 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 945
  • Average number of words per stanza: 184
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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