This is an analysis of the poem Purchased Are The Weapons that begins with:
Are we in the same 'thang' to maintain gains,
Or......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCDce AFDbE GcA gcAXa GgcA HDCcA AbCDce AFDbE HDCcAXHDCcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,3,5,4,5,6,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110011 1 111 10101 1 10010 1100111010101 11 101 1 101010010 10101110101 1 101010 10101110101 1 101010 1 0101010 10101110101 110101110101 1 101010 10101010111 110101010111 110101110111 1 101010 1100110011 1 111 10101 1 11010 1100111010101 11 101 1 101010010 10101010111 110101010111 110101110111 1 101010 10101010111 110101010111 110101110111 1 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; everybody, peace are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word everybody at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words destruction, weapons at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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