This is an analysis of the poem Eighth Air Force that begins with:
If, in an odd angle of the hutment,
A puppy laps the water from a can...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaa babaa cacaa Xabaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011100010 0101010001 0101011010 101001011111 0111110101 0101001010 100111111 110101110 110011111 1100100101 000111110111 1100110101 1011111011 1010010111 1111000101 11100010101 101101101 111111111010 1111011111 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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