This is an analysis of the poem Young, Patriotic And Undeniably Brave that begins with:

Discharged from the Air Force.
Married and living independently....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXb XXdXaX eeafaXX df XX cebca X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,2,2,5,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011 1011010100 11101 11101 11101010010 1001 1010100 101 10101 1110001 110101 1101010100 011010000110 10110100 101110 111011100 101011111 01011000 0101 1101010100 11001011 0110101101001 1000 0111110 111010100001010 1011101010 111010101101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of Young, Patriotic And Undeniably Brave;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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