This is an analysis of the poem Put Down Your Weapons! that begins with:
Put down your weapons...
And the ammunition fed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abb XbcXXXc Addbabcce Xabb AaAbb AecXea X ceXaXeabaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,9,4,5,6,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 1010101 01110 1111101 11011101 01 0111111 01001011 010010101 011001111 11110 11001101001 001001010011 1001101001 0110100101000 010001 0011001 0001010101 00111010 0010100101 10100 11010001101 0111010010 11110 011010 11110 1110111 001111101 11110 11111 001010101 010101 0111001001 00111010 11 1 1 1 10 101 110110 11101 0101100101 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word put at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Put Down Your Weapons!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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