This is an analysis of the poem The New Recruit that begins with:
The lads were once my comrades,
They stay at home content....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb aaca defe fgdg chch cdcd diXi gdXd djcj cbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111 111110 1101010 110111 1101111 101111 1001110 110101 1111011 111101 0111010 111111 0101110 111101 0111011 011101 0111010 111111 11110010 111111 1101010 111101 0101010 110101 0111111 010101 1110011 110101 1111100 111111 1101010 011111 0111111 110111 1011110 010101 1101010 010101 101001110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word good at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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- summary of The New Recruit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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