This is an analysis of the poem Our Men that begins with:
Our men, they are our stronghold,
Our bastioned wall unscaled,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbaXa cdcdeaea fgfghbhb icicjgjg kikiebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11001100 1011111 0111010 1101010 111101 1011110 101111 1111010 111111 1111010 111111 1111110 110101 1011010 111111 1101110 011001 1101110 101111 1111010 011111 0111010 011101 1101110 111111 1001010 110111 1101010 111101 11110110 111101 1101111 110111 1110011 011111 1011110 1100101 1101010 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, they, and, to, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, asking, they, and, the, what are repeated.
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