This is an analysis of the poem A Sing-Song that begins with:
I. THE COMMAND
To his crack army corps, 'twas the Kaiser who spoke : ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcdeefX f facaXc afgfXg afgXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 001101101011 11001101001 101011111111 01011110101 11111001001 001001001111 11101011111 101001011110 1001 111 1001 1111111 11 1111 1110011 11 1011 1111010 11 1011 1010010 11 1111 1110110 11 101 0010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, and are repeated.
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