This is an analysis of the poem The Guards Came Through that begins with:
Men of the Twenty-first
Up by the Chalk Pit Wood, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaAccccdacA efefgagaXhih aiaXijijdbahah bdbdkbkblala mhmmh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,14,12,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 110111 1011111 1011111 1001101 1111001 1011001 11001001 100101 101111 1101101 1101001 10001101 101101 10011001 11001001 1001001 100101 1011111 00111011 1101001 1101001 1101001 11011011 11101101 111001010 111111101101 10111 1110111 1101101 101111 101100 101011 1011101 1101111 1011110 1111101 1111101 111101 1101101 111111101 10111 11101 010101 110101001 10100101 0100111 110101 1011011 101001 00101011 101111 101111101 110111 101101 101101 00110110111 111101001010 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; our, and, always, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words always, never, and, man are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word through at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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