This is an analysis of the poem The Hero Of Rorke's Drift that begins with:
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time,
And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of the line;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba ccXd Xbee ffgg cXcc eeXX gghh eegX ddgX ffiibb ffab jjci eXff ggee ffff ggci eeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011111 1100010101010101010001 11001111101001 11001111111011 10001011100101010 10111010110110 101101101111110 100101101001001 101101110110110 111111010101 11011110101001 11101001011001101 110100011100101 100110111101 010001111110001 1100111111 1010011100110010 101101111010100100 11010000101010 110101010010 110101010100001 101001001110 10111101101100 1001101001010 1100110001001 1011011001101 110101111001 10110010110011 10101001011101 11010100001 11100011010101 100101111101110100100 101111010011 1010111001111 11010101111001 100010101011101100 101101010101 011001010101 11110110100100101 1000010111101 111101100100 111000111011 01001101110101 11001010101 101011110101 11011011011 11101010100001 1010101101101 101110110101010 1001111001001001 1110100000101 111010111000 0111000101110101 1101101011011 10001100100111 100101110000101 110110001010001 1010111011 011101010001 1101110101 1011011101 1101101011101 1111010010011 1111010101 111010010010 100101101010100101 1110110011111 111001101011 10110100110101 11101010011010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, and, to, in, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then, but are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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