This is an analysis of Bersaglieri Song by Paul van Ostaijen.
A gentleman going up the street
a gentleman going down the street…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcbXXXdeedBcbadXcXXbBdbXeab
- Stanza lengths: 29,
- Metre: 010010101 010010101 110010111 100110011 101010011 10100101001100 10100101001100 010100 11110 110010110011 01010010110011 011001010 0110101101101101 01101 01101 100110111010111 1110 101001 001 01001100 010100 101100 0110101101101101 11110 11111101 110011 110111011 1011 1001011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
gentleman, going, up, of, and, his, other, high, hat, their
Anaphora
a, right, the, of, that
Epiphora
street, wenryson, hand
