This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Dardanelles that begins with:
The Wireless tells and the cable tells
How our boys behaved by the Dardanelles.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbBBbaabBBBB bbbBBBB ccbbBBb ddbbBBb eebbBBbXaabBBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 11101101000 1101101110 1100111111 111 111 1010111111 11111011111 110110101 111101101 11100111111 111 111 11100111111 1100101111 1011100101 11101101110 1110111111 111 111 1110111111 011110101 1110110101 1011100101 10100111111 111 111 1011111111 1011110111 11100111101 110111011 111011111111 111 111 11011111111 011110111 0101001011 1110110101 11111111111 111 111 1111111111 0010110101 0010110101 0101100101 1110111111 111 111 1110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, knew, would, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words knew, from are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines would is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word would at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase they connects the lines.
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