This is an analysis of the poem The Squad Of One that begins with:
SERGEANT BLUE of the Mounted Police was a so-so kind of a guy ;
He swore a bit, and he lied a bit, and he boozed a bit on the sly;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb bbee cccX ffeX gghh iigX XaXX ddXX jjeX bbXX bbkk bbhX bbgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100100110111001 110111101111001101 1110111111101111 11101101011100111 101001110011111101 01111011111100111 01111001011110101 11010010011110111 011110111110111 1010110111110101 00111111011011101 11101101011000111 11010010011010111 01100101100111 101011101111101001 11101101111101101 1111101101001111101001 101100111010101 1111101011101011 11101110111011 1101111111100101 1111010110101 110101111110111 11110101110010 11010101010111 00101111011110101 1110101111011111 1011100101010101 1111110011010001 11011101110100101 1110111101010101 11101111100100010 111010010111001101 10100101010110101 10101110010111100101 011101111101001100 10101111100111111 101101101011010111 1100101101110101 10100111110110001 11001111011111101 010110111110100101 1010101101111011101 101111010111111001 111001000110101101 111011110111111001 1111011011101101 111110110111100010 11111001011101101 101111111010111011 111111111111110111 11111111100100101 1100111010101101 1000111111100101 11100101101101 111110111011101 1111001110100100111 1100110101011101 101010001000100101 101010100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, bit, can, of, man, his, as, ', that, to, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, ', and are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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