This is an analysis of the poem No! that begins with:

By bridge and battery, town and trench,
They're fighting with bull-dog pluck; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXebebbdbX fgfggdgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111 1100111 1101001001 010101 111111111 1110101 1100100101 111001 111110101 0001101 011100111 1111111 1010110111 1010101 011110101 11110011 1100110101 10111001 111111001 10100111 1111100101 11100111 101110111 11110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of No!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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