This is an analysis of the poem Bersaglieri Song that begins with:
A gentleman going up the street
a gentleman going down the street ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbXXXdeedBcbadXcXXbBdbXeab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010101 010010101 110010111 100110011 101010011 10100101001100 10100101001100 010100 11110 110010110011 01010010110011 011001010 0110101101101101 01101 01101 100110111010111 1110 101001 001 01001100 010100 101100 0110101101101101 11110 11111101 110011 110111011 1011 1001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1036
- Average number of words per stanza: 193
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; gentleman, going, up, of, and, his, other, high, hat, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, right, the, of, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines street, wenryson, hand are repeated).
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