This is an analysis of the poem The Horse And The Olive: Or, War And Peace that begins with:
With Moral Tale let Ancient Wisdom move,
Which thus I sing to make the Moderns wise:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddcdcededdfdfbdbXababfbfbdgdgagagbbbbXfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010100101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010100 1101000101 0111110101 11010111001 1011110101 0101010101 1101110111 1101000101 0101010101 1111010101 11101010101 0101011111 1001110101 110011101001 1101110101 1101010111 1001010110 11010110111 1101110101 1111010101 1101000101 1101000101 11010101001 0101011101 1101011001 0101010111 1111010101 1011000101 1110010101 1101110101 0101010111 01010100101 1101110111 1011010001 1110010001 1101010101 1100000101 0011010101 10011010101 10011010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2121
- Average number of words per stanza: 359
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; peace, war, hence, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, hence, if, whene'er are repeated.
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