This is an analysis of the poem Ernie Pyle that begins with:
I wish I had a simple style
In writing verse,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedefX fgfghh ijijeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 0101 10011101 1111 10111001 0101 111111011 1101 11111111 1101 110100111 101 01110101 0100 11010101 0100 11010101 1111 11011111 0111 11010111 0111 011111010 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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