This is an analysis of the poem The Bugler's First Communion that begins with:
A buglar boy from barrack (it is over the hill
There)—boy bugler, born, he tells me, of Irish ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba cddc effe cXXc ghhg aiia cjjc kddX feef fddf bhhbXkeek
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010001001 11101111010 100110101 1111101110 0101011101100111 111011011010 101010 1110100001010 1111110101 11010111101 0010101 110111001111 1111010101 101001110111010 111110 101001000101 10110001010 100111100011 1111011 1010010011110 1011101001111 11010110111 1101011 11100110001110 11111101010 1111001010 1111010 111010011010 10101011111 1111000101010 111010 111010111 11111101010 111111111 11110001 11111101111010 11111111001 01011101110 1111010 111111011011 11011101111 010111111011 010111 11001001001111 010101111111 11010001001110 111010 1011110111001011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, his, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, to are repeated).
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