This is an analysis of the poem Alf’s Fifth Bit that begins with:
The pomps of butchery, financial power,
Told 'em to die in war, and then to save,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede dXXX fgfgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010001010 1001011101 11110001110 1001011001 01011100111 1111111101 0101110101 1101010111 1111110111 0101011101 1101011001 1111110001 1101011101010 101101010110 110001010101 11110111000 1111010101 1101011100 00110111111111 1101011101 0111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, hid, and, more, back are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Alf’s Fifth Bit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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