This is an analysis of the poem The Relief Of Mafeking that begins with:
Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing,
For being so brave in relieving Mafeking,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb cccc bbdd ccee ccee dddd Xdbb ffbb ddccaX ggdd hhaX Xaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101010101 110110010100 001010101101 11011010011010001 100101110101 11010101010101 110101000101 1001010010011001 101010001011 1001011001111 1001010001 11010100110101 11001101011011 101010100101111 1010100001011001 111010100011 11010111010101 011101010101 0110101011001 1101110010000111 1111010101101 11001010011011 011010011010111 11110101011001 11001011010011 100101110001 10101010101 111111010111101 111011001100010 11100110100010010 101010110001 1101001001101 1011110101 10100011011101 111100011111 1010011101 11101111010 0111100101000 11101000101010 111011001101 11010100100001 101100111001 111101010110001 101001001001001 11011111010 011110010100 1100010100 01110101010 0111001001 100011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mafeking is repeated).
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