This is an analysis of the poem The Shut-Eye Sentry that begins with:
Sez the Junior Orderly Sergeant
To the Senior Orderly Man:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdeX afaf Xcgcaded hfhI XbabacXc bfXI XjajXXXc XfXf ebgbedXd XXacXfkiXkfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010 00101001 101001011 111111 1011110101 1011111 111100101 1101100 101101101100101 110110101110111 10110110111101 11110101010111 01111010 011111 1010010101 1011101 10100110101 1011101 1111100101 11101101 101101101100111 11011101001110111 10110110110101 111100 11010010 110101 1111110101 0111101 11101111111 1011111 1111110101 110101 01010110111101 1101110100110111 10110110111100100 111100 0111110 011111 1111111111 1110111 1110110 1010111 1110110101 010111 10110110110111100 110100110100110111 10110110101010 111010101010111 11111010 1110101 111110111 0100111 1111100101 11111011 1111110101 111101 1011110 101111 1110110111 111101 1101110 0100111 11011101 010100 10010110110111 11010101110111 10010110110101 11111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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:
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; orderly, by, an', it, we, 'im, 'is, for, there, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an', there, there's are repeated.
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- summary of The Shut-Eye Sentry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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