This is an analysis of the poem The Perfect Playmate that begins with:
Roger Charles Noel Bellingham. Before Ypres, March 4th, 1915
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabccB ddbeeB ffbggBXddbaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010011010110111 0011110111 1111011101 11110101001 1111010101 1011101101 0011100111 1111010101 11110101001 1001110101 11011010101 1001010011 0011100111 1101111101 11010110111 11010011011 1101001101 0111010001 0011100111 1111010111 010100100101 11011101101 01100010101 00010100101 0011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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 words that, who are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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