This is an analysis of the poem A Mate Can Do No Wrong that begins with:
We learnt the creed at Hungerford,
We learnt the creed at Bourke;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaXcXdcXcXecXaaXadeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 110111 1100001 110101 11010101 110100 11010111 011111 11010001 110111 11110111 010101 11011001 110001 111010111 011111 11110101 110111 01000100 110111 11110101 111011 110100101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 711
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; learnt, we, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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