This is an analysis of the poem The Story Of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol that begins with:
The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol
-AP Dispatch, Des Moines Register, August 4, 1968...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bcbb bdX dcccXe XaX bc dcXde Xbc Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,3,6,3,2,5,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111001101 101111001011 01100010 1010001 11101 11101 0100101 110010 0011 1010 0111 0010001 1011 0010100100 11110 11111 101010 1111110 1010 100101010 100000101 100111 11111000 1111 101000110 10010 101101 011111 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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