This is an analysis of the poem When Tommy Came Marching Home that begins with:
Devine came back the other day.
We'd planned a great home-comin'. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbbc dXdbeXeeX XfefgXggX bXbXacaac XhXhahaah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 1101110 11011101 1101010 01110111 1101010 11010101 11010101 1010010 11110101 0101010 11010111 1101010 11110111 1101100 01111111 11011101 0111100 11101111 1111010 11110111 1101010 01011001 1100010 11010111 11110111 1100110 11111111 0101010 11011111 1101010 11010101 1101010 11010111 01111101 0101010 11011101 0111010 11100011 0101010 01010111 1111010 11110111 11011011 1100110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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