This is an analysis of the poem After The Salvo that begins with:
UP and down, up and down
They go, the gray rat, and the brown....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbbccaAAdXeeddd ffbbgghhbX AAii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 11011101 010111101 10010101 110110101 010110101 110100101 111111 11011101 011100111 100010101 01010001 100010101 010111111 111100111 1111101011 1010110101 01010101 01011111 010110101 010011101 01010101 11010101 10001111 11110101 101000100 111111 11011101 01011111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
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