This is an analysis of the poem Impromptu On Dumourier's Desertion Of The French Republican Army that begins with:
YOU'RE welcome to Despots, Dumourier;
You're welcome to Despots, Dumourier:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XXaaX XXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 110010100 110010100 11101 111011 101110101100 101101100 101101100 101101 1011101 1111101100 111101100 111101100 111101 110101 1101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, you, dumourier, then, let, us, fight, about are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you're, i, then are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dumourier, you are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dumourier at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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