This is an analysis of the poem I Wore Those Dog Tags that begins with:
I'm not here to lick or heal wounds.
Or run quickly to see, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacaadececbabafdfXgeXXbggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101111 111001 111010 01110101 01111111 0100010 1100100010 101111010 1 11000111010 10111111 1111001 1010101000101 011111 11111111 001001 1100001110 10101101101 0101 111010111 001011101111010 01010001011010101 110 111101 1111001010011 0011011101001 1011010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 971
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nothing connects the lines.
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