This is an analysis of the poem Every Man Should Have A Rifle that begins with:
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb,
Seeing visions "over yonder" of the war I know must come. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101010111 10101001000011111 001010101011101 101010101010011 100010011011101 10010011101111111 111010101110111 001010101010101 011011101011000 111110100110101 1010101010011101 1001110101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, no are repeated.
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