This is an analysis of the poem Sleeping For The Flag that begins with:
When our boys come home in triumph, brother,
With the laurels they shall gain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacaC bdad aeaeacac aXaXacaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101010 0010111 1110101010 1111101 1111101010 1110100 1111111010 1010101 10010 0010111 1011111010 1010111 100111010 110101101 1110101010 11111001 0010101010 1010101 1111111010 1011101 1110101010 0010001 100101010010 100101110 1011101110 1011111 111011010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sleeping, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, sleeping, you are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tree at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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