This is an analysis of the poem Peace that begins with:
A man must earn his hour of peace,
Must pay for it with hours of strife and care,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011101001 11100100111 1111010101 01110100101 01001010101 1001010001 0111010101 1101010111 0111010111 0101110101 0101010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; must is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words must, the are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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