This is an analysis of the poem The Next War that begins with:
You young friskies who today
Jump and fight in Father’s hay ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBXccccddeeccffaabbggbXhhhhiijjkkllmmaXiiBX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1110101 011101101 101101100 10111011 1111111 1001111 11010101 00111111 11100101 1111001110 10011010 011101111 110000101 10110101 01110111 01011111 1011101 01001111 1010101 01110001 1010101 11110101 110101100 01011110 0100011001 11110110 0010101 11110101 11011101 1110101 01111101 111110001 01110101 10110101 11011111 1010001 11110011 1010101 011100100 11010111 11111101 011101101 101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1574
- Average number of words per stanza: 290
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; and, you, to, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Next War;
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