This is an analysis of the poem Over The Parapet that begins with:
All day long when the shells sail over
I stand at the sandbags and take my chance;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ceceXfcf gfgfbhbh aiaiafaf ejejkbkb alaljgjg mdmdkbkb cncnXlXl gfgfaeXX aoaokbkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101110 1110111111 11111001010 1100101101 0101111010 1010101011 101110010 1010100111 11011111110 101100111 1111001010 11111101001 101101010 100100111 1001101110 1101011001 11101111110 1010100111 111001111110 11011101001 10101101010 110010101 1011011010 1100110101 1101001010 10011101 00101001010 1010100101 111101010 0110110101 01001101010 010010111 01011101010 1101101001 101001001010 10101101 1111011010 110100101 11111010010 10111111 1011011010 011110101 11001001010 00100101001 001101001110 01010001011 1111001110 111101101 1101111111 010110101 0100110011 0110111111 1111111010 1110100101 1110101010 111101001 1001111110 010111111 11111111010 111101101001 11011000110100 1011101001 100110110100 101101001011 111111111110 100100111 11111001110 1110111101 11101111110 10011101111 1111101010 1110100110100 1111011010 1110111111 11101101110 1111101101 1111011010 10011111 1100111010 100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, of, and, i, they, we, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, and are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase romance connects the lines.
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