This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Atbara that begins with:
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me,
And I'll tell ye of a great victory.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaa cccdd eecc ffff ccgg hhii ccab eefX jjkk hhcc jjcc kkXX llaa mmaa Xcee XXeeXbaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101101 1111001100 101001001000101 101001000101 0011111010100010101 101001100001 1101111000100101 10101000110101 01010000111101 01011111001001001 10010011101 1100010110011011101 1010011000100101 101010101100101 10101100010101101 101001000101 1100010011001 100010011101100100010 101010100101010 10110101101 11110111101 110111001010 1010010101010 1101101110001001 11111000101 110111010010 00101001010110101 010011001001 10110101010110 110100101011011 101111001 101001001001001 11110100011011110 100101001001011 11100011101 110101010000010 1111010011110 100100101101001010101 01100010001011 1010001010010011011010 10011010010011010 100100110101010001 10100110101000100101 10101101001001 10100001010010101011 0100010010101001010 101100011110010 11101010101110100 10100101010100101 1011101011101 101001101001001 1110101110101 1100100010101101 101001011010111 110111101 1010101011111001 11001011001 101001101001111110 11101001101101 101011101111001 111010101011 1101100100100101 10101010111111 011001001011 101011010010011101 1110100001010 1111010010110011111 11010001110001 100101010010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, general, in, as, to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, then, may are repeated.
The author used the same words the, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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