This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who Man Our Batteries that begins with:
The men who man our batteries,
The men who serve our guns,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabcbc adadXdad efefdgdg fhfhXbib Xidijfjf fkfklflf fdfdbaba Xmjmldld
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111100 011111 111100100 111101 1111010 010101 0101010 110111 0111111 110101 1100111 011101 0101110 111101 11110100 111101 1110010 010111 0110110 010101 1101111 1000101 1101001 010101 1101010 010111 0101110 011101 1101111 110011 1111011 111111 11010100 110101 1001110 110101 0101010 110111 10001010 011101 0111110 111101 1101010 1100001 11010101 110111 1111011 111101 0111010 110101 1111010 111101 1111010 111101 1111010 111101 1101110 010101 0101010 111111 1101010 010101 0111010 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, wherever, and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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