This is an analysis of the poem Sam Goes To It that begins with:
Sam Small had retired from the Army,
In the old Duke of Wellington's time,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dede afgf Xhbh ijhj XXaX cXcX aXdc kkdk aglg mgig lkkX XdXX XdXX XmnXXnkdk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010 001101001 1101010010 101111101 1111000100 11101011 1110110010 11011001 10101011010 101011001 110110011 11001011 110010010 11001011 1111110011 01011111 111010110 101111011 11101111011 101011111 1111010010 111011101 1011011110 110110110 10111100110 101101011 1010011011 111110010 1011010000110 1010111100 110110110 11101011 111010111 01001011 10100100110 101011111 1110110010 0101101 1011111111 011001001 111011010 10111001 011110010 001101001 101101011111 01001101 1111110010 111111110 111011100 1110001011 101101001000 10110101010 1010111100 10010011001 10110110110 11110010010 101110110100 11001001 10111010110 0111100100 1011101010 11010001 1010011110 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, so, i, you, last, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word said is repeated.
The author used the same words he, said at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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