This is an analysis of the poem American Boys, Hello! that begins with:
Oh! we love all the French, and we speak in French
As along through France we go.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbbXCCX daaaaXXXX daece eXCCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111101 1011111 10100111111 1011110111 101101111 11100110 1001001 1011111 0100110 1101101011 0101111 1111111111 1010011111 1110111111 11011100101001 110101 1110100101 011110 1100100101 1011101 1010100111 111101111 11 001011111 011110 1001001 1011111 0100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, you are 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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