This is an analysis of the poem The War Drum that begins with:
O come, come along!
There sounds the war-drum ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABC AdXefg ffhbXfgd ABC AGdeA ighfg gdfA XjefgkhGA dglAjmfn AmdXmdcdXe lAgfA ebjfmiohjp Amhd fgjFF bkjfd AGeAlnaAGgigl fhai ejeehofj dgmefjf bAGCXp
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,8,3,5,5,4,9,8,10,5,10,4,5,5,13,4,8,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 11011 001011 11101 0100101 01011010 11101 111011 01010 111011011 111111001 101001 001010010 10110101 01011001 10100110010 1101111101 11101 11011 001011 11101 11110100010 01111101 1101001 11101 110111 0101 11010111 101111 011 101011 101 1110111 11101 111001101 01101101 10101 0101111001 110101 0111110111010 011000101010 11110100010 11101 110111 110101 101010101 11101 11110001 0101101 11111111 00101 11101 1011111011 110111101 001010 11010101 110101101 10111 110101 1010101 01011001101 11100010101 11101 1111010001 11110111 11101 11101 0111101 11001 110110101 010001 111001001 110010001 110010101010 01100101 100101000110 11101 1111 1100101010 10101 11010111 1111001111 11100101 1101 1101 1101 11101 10101011 1101111 1010111 11101 11011 1110101 11101 101010111 101001 101011001 11101 11011 110101 11111 1011010 101001 101010110 10101101 11111101 0111 111110 1010100011 10101001110 1101110 110100 11101 11111111 0101 01011 1110010110 110011 10010 10010101 001 111 110100010 11101 11011 001011 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, of, there, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, there, we, you are repeated.
The author used the same word o 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 fight is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word along at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase we connects the lines.
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