This is an analysis of the poem Hello, Soldier! that begins with:
Back again 'n' nothin' missin' barrin'
arf a hand, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdedffggggfXhh dXcdieXeXXffaajjjj ggcgbkgkbbggllmmee XificXXXjjkkXXff XfffjajammaaaaXXjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,16,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101010 101 110111100010 1 1111101000 101 111110101 1011 10101110 10100110 1110011 1010001 1110101 1010101 11111110 11101010 1010101 1110101 11111010101 01 1111101010 101 101011101011 1 1001110010 001 10101010 01111010 1110111 100101 1111100 1110001 10101011 10100011 0110101 1010101 1110101010 101 1011101110 111 111011101010 1 10101011111 11 10101010 10110110 1010101 10110001 1010101 1010001 11101010 10111010 1010100 1110011 10101110001 11 1101011100 01 101110101000 1 101110101011 1 11101010 11101010 1111101 1011101 11000100 00111010 1010011 1010101 101010101011 1 10111011101 01 101111111011 1 101010111010 1 10111110 11100010 1010101 1010101 1110111 1010101 10001010 10111010 1010101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 537
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, with, you, to, so are repeated.
The author used the same word back at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in, you, to are repeated).
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- summary of Hello, Soldier!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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