This is an analysis of the poem Victory that begins with:
I.
Before those golden altar-lights we stood,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbb cbcb dbdb ee X aafa gege hihi jj X adfdjeje ijij ii X ihih aeaX kjkj ll a kiki kmXm fefe dd a mdmd fafa cece eX X khkh bcbc ininXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,2,1,4,4,4,2,1,8,4,2,1,4,4,4,2,1,4,4,4,2,1,4,4,4,2,1,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0111010111 11010100011 0111010101 1111111101 1001110111 0111011101 1001010101 1111111101 1001111101 1111110111 1101011111 01001010101 1111111001 1101010111 1 1011011111 11011101001 1011011100 0101010111 1111111111 1011011111 1111011101 01001011101 1001011111 01001011101 11111100101 1101011101 111100101001 1101001011 1 1101110111 011101110010 1101111100 10110101110 1001110111 10001111011 11001110101 1101011101 10011001110 1101010101 1100101011110 10001010101 00101110101 1101011101 1 1101010101 11111101011 1101011111 0111010001 1111010001 11011111010 1001111011 01111001110 11011111110 110110011011 10111101110 0111111101 1111111101 10110010101 1 11111001010 1101100101 111111011110 1001010111 110101000010 01111111111 01110010101 11110101111 10011101010 11111101001 10111111110 01111010001 1111001101 1111111101 1 1111110111 1111010111 1101111001 110011100101 11010111110 1101110101 11011111010 1101111101 111100010111 11110001111 10011111111 11111101001 1010111010010 0100101010100 1 11111111010 1111111101 01111101110 0101100111 1001010101 1001010111 1001100111 1101110111 11110111110 01111101101 11110111010 1111011111 1111111111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 111
- 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; on, that, her, of, where, us, and, with, in, die, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, i, how, die are repeated.
The author used the same words beautiful, love at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Victory;
- central theme;
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