This is an analysis of the poem Long Before I Had Joined The Military that begins with:
It was nearing the end of boot camp.
Eight weeks of basic training was nearing an end, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabccd cbebfagXhhahdhX hahXaXgfe cadadX hdiXi cjjiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,15,9,6,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001011 110101011011 1110010111001 01001 10011111001 0111010 110101 110011110111 11111 1111011011 11101 111101001 101101010 0110101011010 11 10101101001 111011110 11 1110011101 11101 11111111011 1 111111 01100101010 1110011 1010111111 1011010 1110 11000011 1100101101 1001 11011101 1110 111011110 111011101 111 1111111 11111 1101010110101 0100111011 1110010111111 11 110111011010 110101010100010 0110111 1011101010 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; of, to, you, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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