This is an analysis of the poem Only A Boche that begins with:
We brought him in from between the lines: we'd better have let him lie;
For what's the use of risking one's skin for a tyke that's going to die?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eXffggaahh iXffaa iijjdd kkaallXj cXccdd aaeeii fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,6,6,8,6,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001011101111 11010101110111001 101010111001010 111001111111111010 11011111010111 01110110111110111 11011110111101101 1110101101111010111 1111001110100100 10101010111011100100 111111110110100111 10111111011100101 10101001111010101 101111011111101011 111111010111111111 1110110111110101 11111001010111101 1101111111110101 1111101011111101 0101010111110110 11100101011011101 101010010111110111 1101110011110100 01011010110101001 01101001110110111 011010101001001101 101001110100111 01011110111111001 101001111010111 10111111011111101 10111111110100101 10101101111010101 01010010111100101 1111101010100101 10010101110101 001001010110100101 100111110111111010 1110100101100101 10001001010100101 10010101100101 10001001111000111 000010110100101101 10101001011110101 10111111110101101 11111111110101011 100111001100101 10111100111101111 11011010110100100 110111010100101 01111010101011001 1111011111101011 1010110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 69 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, and, we, to, of, as, i, that, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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