This is an analysis of the poem Boots that begins with:
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We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbCD XdCD eCfD XXCD aeCD XfcD XcCD XXcD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010 111111010100 11111010100 11111011101 1101001 101010111110101 10101011010101 11111011101 1101001 11111110101 11111011101 11111110101 11101001 111101110100 11111010101 11111011101 1101001 111101000101 01111010111 11111011101 1101001 11111011100 11111010100 11111011101 11101001 11111011100 111111101010 11111011101 1101001 11111011101 001101011101 111111011101 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; foot, boots, slog, men, try, count, not are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines africa is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word war at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Boots;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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