This is an analysis of the poem The War Budget that begins with:

Hodge waded through the weekly news,
'The Income Tax, he said, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX dXdXeceX X ffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 111111 11011101 110101 11100111 111101 11110101 11100111 100110101 1111001 10110011 111101 01010111 010101 10010101 10111 10 01010101 11011111 11111101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of The War Budget;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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