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;
- critical appreciation.
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