This is an analysis of the poem The Art Of War. Book Ii. that begins with:
When fatal Discord from the realms of night,
Wings to this bleeding world her baleful flight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeecc ddffdgddhh ddccii jjbbeebbbXddkk ccggaaddcc eegghhggee bbddbbcc aabbbbhhccggggbbhhccbbcckkllccaahh bbbbaa ddddaakkjj aabbjj bbggcc eeggaa bbccbb bbaaeeeddeejjccll ccbbkk hhggbb Xeccggbbllbbmm ccXXffccjjnn ffccoogg bbgghhccddXa ccbbaadX ggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,6,14,10,10,8,34,6,10,6,6,6,6,17,6,6,14,12,8,12,8,4,12,12,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101000101 1001010101 1001010101 11010101001 11010011101 1101011111 10110101010 01011111010 01010100101 1101010101 1001110111 1001010101 01010001001 0101110101 11010100101 0111010101 11001011101 11010101001 0101010101 01011100101 11010111001 1101011101 10110010101 110010010101 01010111010 10010111010 110101001010 0101011101 1101010111 01010011101 1101110101 0101000101 10011010101 11010111001 1001010101 1101010101 01001010101 0101000101 1101010101 0101010101 10110101001 001011100101 01001010101 1101001001 1101010101 1101010101 01010100101 0101010101 1101110101 10010100001 0111110101 1101010101 11010100111 1111010101 0111011101 0101010101 1101010111 01001011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 0111011101 1101011101 01010010101 0101110111 0101011001 1011110101 11111110101 01110101001 1111111101 0101110001 11010111001 1111010101 01010100101 11110100101 11111100101 1101011101 1111011101 01010010101 1101110101 1111110101 1011010101 1101010101 1111100101 0100011001 1101110101 1001011101 1001110001 1001011101 11010111001 10110010111 11110100101 11010100101 1101011101 1011010101 0101010101 110001011101 1011010101 1001010001 10001010101 110010101010 01010101010 1101110101 1011010101 10110100101 1101111111 0011010101 1101010101 01010101001 0110110101 11001010101 1101111001 0101011001 1101110101 0101110101 100010110001 00101110111 0101011101 01011000101 0101010101 1111010001 1101110101 1011001111 11010100101 0111110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101111101 1001110101 1011010101 1001110001 11110101001 10011011101 0101011101 1001010101 01110100101 01011010101 010011100101 1101010101 01110000101 0111010111 01001010101 01011110110 1111011111 1011010101 1101011101 100010010101 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1001011101 1001010111 1011010101 1101010101 1101010001 01001010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 1001110101 1001010101 1101010101 0100111101 1101011101 1101110111 1011110101 1011110101 11010000100 11010011001 1101011111 0101010101 01010101001 11010100101 11010100101 1100100101010 0100011001 01010100101 01010001001 1001011101 1101010101 1111010111 11010110001 11010010101 0101010001 11010101001 0101011101 11010101010 1101010110 1111110101 100100100001 1111110101 0101111001 11110111001 1101111111 11010010101 1101011001 0111110101 0101010101 10110100101 0101010101 1101011111 1011010101 11110101011 01010111001 0101010101 0101110101 1001010101 1111010101 10010100101 01010111011 11001110101 1101010101 1001010101 0101011101 01011101001 11001010101 11010101001 010101001001 0101010110 1101011101 1111110101 1101011001 0111011101 0111011101 11010011101 1011010101 1101111101 1111010110 11010100101 0101110101 1111010101 1101110101 0011110011 101111101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010001 1111010111 1011010101 1101110101 01010010101 1101000101 100110100101 10110010101 1101010101 0101011111 1001100101 1111110101 10010101001 1001110101 1011110101 0101011101 1111010101 01010111001 11010011101 01011100101 1111000101 0101011101 0101010101 110011101101 10111100101 110111011 1111110101 1111010111 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 267
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, your, with, in, his, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same words thus, when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Art Of War. Book Ii.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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