This is an analysis of the poem A Working Party that begins with:
Three hours ago he blundered up the trench,
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeeXf XghbXid hbgdbgbeiX agfi XgbfXbg XeehXfcg fiXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,10,4,7,8,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001110101 1011010001 0111110101 0111010101 1101011101 10110111001 10011111010 1001011101 1011101111 1101110011 1101100101 1011010101 1101011101 1001011111 01010101101 0111010101 1101010101 11010011101 1011010101 0111010101 10101010101 1101010101 1111110101 11110101001 0101010101 11001110101 1101011101 1101010101 0111010011 110110011 1111000111 1111010101 1101010101 1001110101 1111110101 0111010001 1111110101 0101010101 1111111001 1101010101 1101011111 1101011101 0101110001 0111010101 1101010101 1001010101 11110111110 1111010101 0101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 49
- 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; and, he, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of A Working Party;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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