This is an analysis of the poem Grafted Into The Army that begins with:

Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent,
they have grafted him into the Army,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccb XdB eBeBdddB fBfBgggb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101001 1110100010 110010011011 1110100010 1100111101 1010100011111 101111001001 1110100010 1101111011101000 1111101101 1110100010 11001011101 1110100010 01101111011 1110100010 1110101101 01011001101 1101110111 1110100010 10101011101 1110100010 0100100101 1110100010 1110100101 01101101001 1100101111 1110100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word army at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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