This is an analysis of the poem What General Has A Good Army that begins with:

WHAT General has a good army in himself, has a good army;
He happy in himself, or she happy in herself, is happy,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001001000110010 1100011110001010 1111110010110101111 0110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; happy, in, you are repeated.

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