This is an analysis of the poem The Firing-Line that begins with:
They are creeping on through the cornfields yet, and they clamber amongst the rocks,
Ere they rush to stab with the bayonet and smash with the... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb bbbX ccbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011111100101 11101001011100101 11011010111110101 11011011111001001 111010011110101110 111101101101001110 01001011010101101 111111111111001001 001010010111101001 001001001011100111 101010011010100111 1110011010111100100 101100111111001001 011110110110101101 001110011111110111 111111111111001001 1110110110111011011 110110110111011011 111011011111111101 010110011111001001 1010111011110100101 1011110100110101101 1111011011110101 110100111111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, with, of, in, where, world, old, some, us, who, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in, where are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word line at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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