This is an analysis of the poem Tommy's Dead that begins with:
YOU may give over plough, boys,
You may take the gear to the stead, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaB ababaabaabaaababaB aBaBABaBAbababababab abaXcbcbccbbbbbbbbbbbbB ababaB abababab abababaB abababaB ababaBXabaabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,18,20,23,6,8,8,8,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 11101001 1011111 0101111 011111 1101011 111111 1101 101011 1101111 111111 011001 011111 1101111 111101 101011 1001111 10111 111011 111011011 0111011 101101 1111011 111111 110111 1101 1111011 11111 11010011 110100 1001011 110100 1110111 11111 1001011 1111111 0100111 1111011 1111001 11111 111010111 0101111 1001111 100101 101011111 10111001 110111 11101011 1111011 01010 1110 0101011 0111011 01010011 0101101 1110111 0111011 11101001 1110111 10100111 11011011 0110111 10101011 101011 0101111 1011101 01101101 10101 1101 1111011 11111 1100111 111101 111011 1101 111111 010101 1111011 111101 10101011 111111 1011111 1101 101011 110111 11111 11111011 11011011 1101101 111011 1101 011111 110101 11101011 1110101 111011 01111 010111 1101 011111 11101001 011111 110101 1101011 1101 0110011 1111101 111011 11111101 111111 101101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; boys, me, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, out, and, the, there's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines boys is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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