This is an analysis of the poem Arms And The Boy that begins with:
1 Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade
2 How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101011 111101101001 11011010101 11101010011 11101111101 11101000101 11111000111 1100100111 110111101110 111110101010 11101110101 11101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, of, his are repeated.
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