This is an analysis of the poem Riparto D'Assalto that begins with:

Drummed their boots on the camion floor,
Hob-nailed boots on the camion floor....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaabbbbccbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11110101 101 1001 010100101 1111101 1011101 1110101 10110101 100110111 10110111 1010101 100101001 1110101 010110101 110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 524
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; whore, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines floor, whore, cold are repeated).

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