This is an analysis of the poem To Jack that begins with:
SO, I’ve battled it through on my own, Jack,
I have done with all dreaming and doubt.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdad aeaeXdad fefeXcac afafadfd XeaeadadXaeaeafaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011111 111011011 110011011 11100111 111001011 1101001001 101001101 1011000 1110010011 111101111 1110110011 111001001 11111011 111011010 111110011 01101011 1011110001 111111111 1110010010 111101001 011101011 111101001 1110111011 111101011 111110111 11101001 111111011 1001111001 110110111 11011010 101101101 1111011001 101011001 1111001111 011010111 111011101 1111010111 11011110 111111111 111011001 1011110101 101011101 1111010111 111101011 111010111 11001111 1110110011 101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, that, my, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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