This is an analysis of the poem Hare Drummer that begins with:
Do the boys and girls still go to Siever's
For cider, after school, in late September?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbbXcXdbbccbXXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010 11010101010 11010101010 11011110101 11010010111 11010111001 1011110111 10010111 1010010101 10100101 101010 10100101 1101110101 1101 1111011 110101110 001100101010 10011101 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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