This is an analysis of the poem Battle that begins with:
1.
Noon... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa bbbb caca Xdbd baXa efef Xe bbgggg aaahaXhggiijk aagglbmmblaahha a bbh ee aaee hhaabbb jknnee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,2,6,13,15,1,3,2,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1 00110111 011101 01110101 011101 11010101 110101 01011111 110001 01010101 1101010 01010111 1011010 01011101 1100011 01110111 011101 1101101 001101 11011101 000111 1 1010 100010010101 011101110011 010101100101 100101101101 1111001101001 01101011101 1111101101 11001011101 101000110101 1011 01101 001111100110 11011001011 1101100010101 1110100101 100010110001 10010110101 110010001101 1101011101010 110110110101 111101011001 1001011111 00100101111 11111011 11011101 1110101111 111110101 110111101 010101111001 110111001 1011111101 11101010101 01001001001 1000111001 010010011100 1101010110101 0111010111 10101 0010001 11111110101 1010101010 101111111 0110110101 01011011011 00100101010011 11110111001 101101101 01111010101 010101110101 010001010101 10110 011111 100001110100 0101110101001 100101010101 1110101011 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, go are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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