This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of The Bulge that begins with:
This year an ocean trip I took, and as I am a Scot
And like to get my money's worth I never missed a meal....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacadCXeXeecedC afafgXgdC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111111101 11011101110101 010100100111101 11111011011101 11111101010001 11010111110101 11011101010111 11011000 10001 11010101011101 11010101010101 111100010101000 1101100101110011 11010111110101 1101000011111101 11110101101101 110011000 10001 01010101010011 11111000110011 11111111111111 11010100111111 11111000111001 11110001010110 11001101011101 011111010 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 716
- Average number of words per stanza: 132
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as, my, you, and, i'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bulge at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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