This is an analysis of the poem A Mixed Battle Song that begins with:
Lo! the Boar’s tail is salted, and the Kangaroo’s exalted,
And his right eye is extinguished by a man-o’-warsman’s cap;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbbdXaeefcXcggaXa XhehehdhXfhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010101010 101100101011101 1010101010101010 111010101010101 10111011110101 101101010101 101010100011110 011110100010100 1011011111001011 0010101010101010 11101011100100010 1110111010101010 101010101011101 10110101011101010 111010011110110 1110001001101010 10110010 101000101010101 11010111010101000 101010100010101 11111011011101 101010101000101 0010111100111010 111110101111101 1111101001001010 100011101110001 1111111011011010 111010101110101 1010 1010 111011101011101 111010101110111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 970
- Average number of words per stanza: 190
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, and, i, to, in, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
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