This is an analysis of the poem Bayonet Song that begins with:
Fire away, fire away, boys must have their play,
There'll be hard work yet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdcdbceae XFGGBFBFfG gghhhiihccaajkbkjblgcbcaXlXllgXdb mmee gghhbjjjj jbmemacc nhnnccbb llbgoggXFGGBFBFfG hdoXecdcccoallommbihcppcid
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,33,4,9,8,8,17,26,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001100111111 100111 0111 110011011111 1011111 11 101101 01 10101 1111100111 1010111 1111111111 1110111 11011000 0101101011 101101101101 101101101101 101011011 101111011 1010101101 10110111111 1111111 101101101101 11100110101 1111111101 1101001001 1111011011 1011111 1011010 101110110 1111101 1110111 1111101 101111011111 111111 0110101001 1011100101 10101 001111 101 1110101 111101101 110100101 11111 10111 10111 10110101 0111100 111111111 110111100 11011101 10100110101 1101101 01010101 110101 00101 111110101 01101001 101101111 111101101 1110101 01011101 011111111 1111110101 111011 1110111111 110111001 110011001 11111011 1111001 100100101 11111111 101010011 101101 10101101 011111 111011101 11010110 11001 110010 011110010 1110101111 1101101 1110101 1100101 111111 1011 111 111101 10101011 1011101 1110111101 11011000 0101101011 101101101101 101101101101 101011011 101111011 1010101101 10110111111 111111111 101101101101 111111011 1100101 11001101 11101001010 0101101011 1101101001 0111011 11 1111001001 11001001 10101010111 01101011 1011 01101011 1101001011011 10010101011 011011 1011111 1011111011 10111011 101101011 0111 111111 0010111 011011001 111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 136
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, bayonets, come, no, on, to, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bayonets, where's, and, no are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bayonets, come are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases bayonets, come connect the lines.
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