This is an analysis of the poem A Casualty that begins with:
That boy I took in the car last night,
With the body that awfully sagged away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb bcbc XdedXX ccccX fcfcX bebbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,6,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111 0010110101 10111010111 1011101111 11111101101 1010110101 10101111011 10010101 111011111 1101011010 1110101001 1111100111 11101001001 10111111110 11101001111010 10011101101 11101101 111010111 11100111101 10101111110 100101111101 1111010111 11101011001 1110110101 111011011110 11100111111 11111001001 1011111011 101010111 1101101100 1111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, so, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase glad connects the lines.
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