This is an analysis of the poem Tactics Employed that begins with:
Their tactics employed,
Might......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacb dXaXaa cabbaa adXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 1 1001 00111 0011101 01001 111001001 110010001010 010100111 001010010 010101 10100110010001 010101010010 01011100 00100010 1011111 11110010001 101001001001 11010101 00110101001 101000101011 00100111000 110101001 010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, of are repeated.
The author used the same word their at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Tactics Employed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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