This is an analysis of the poem Snarleyow that begins with:
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps
Which is first among the women an' amazin' first in war;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXCCDD aabX bbcX eecX ffcX gXhh hXeeXggccCCDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010000100010001 101010101100101 11010101110101 11111100011100 1001001111 1001001011 11001001101 101101001011 111000101110101 01010100010101 111011111110101 101010101010100 11111111111101 111010101011111 11110101010101 11111100110111 010101101011101 111111001010101 11110100110111 111011111110111 1110101010101 01010101010101 11011101010101 11010100110111 11010101111101 11111101111111 11111101111011 111110101011111 01011101010101 111110101010101 10111101111111 101010101011001 01000100010001 1111100110001 1111101010111 011011101111101 1001001111 1001001011 11001001101 101101001011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; down, in, they, to, an', 'is, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words down, you are repeated.
The author used the same words they, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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