This is an analysis of the poem At Half-Mast that begins with:
You didn't know Billy, did you? Well, Bill was one of the boys,
The greatest fellow you ever seen to racket an' raise a noise,-- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddXd eeffggeecchhee iiiiXXhhddcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110110011111001 0101011010101101 111110110111101 11010110011111101 01011110101011 010111010101001010 110111101111101 010100110011101 1101111011111101 1011100100011101 01111111011101 11101001010110111 1010111011111101 111110101100111 1110100011110101 10101101111110101 1101010111101101 1100101010110111 011101011010001 1110111011011101 1011111011101111 1110001110110101 1100111111110111 1110011101010101 11010111101101001 110110101011111 101010110111100101 111110101111100111 1111100101101110111 1111110011111100 1111100101011001 1101101010110101 10110100111001111101 11010101110111 111111101011101101 111111100011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 836
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, billy, to, that, for, an', of, we, talked are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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