This is an analysis of the poem The Halt Before Rome--September 1867 that begins with:
Is it so, that the sword is broken,
Our sword, that was halfway drawn?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbaa acdddac eacccea fegggfe agfffag hdXiiXd jeeeeje kecccke iafffia felllfe aXeeeaX feccXfe mjXeemj aleeeal XlnnnXl aakkkaa icoooic eeaaaee kadddka ilfffXl ipfffip alXqqal elXeeeX iXcccXX fffffff affffaf jheeejh iXhhhie hfccchf alqqqal megggme jfgggjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001101010 1111111 001101101 10111101 1001001 101111010 111001 10010010 1011001 1101101 1101001 10100101 001011111 1001001 10010111 11010101 1001101 1010001001 101001011 01101110101 101001011 11010110 1101101 1001101 111001 11100111 111001110 1010001 1110011010 1111101 10010010 01001011 110011010 101101010 10100111 11011010 1010011001 111111110 111110 1111010010 101001100 111001 1010111010 1011101 111101111 111011 0111001 1110010110 1110111 11001110 11011101 111011 1011101 1011001 10110010 11101001 10011010 111001 10101101 0110101 111011001 1110111110 0111011 01110110 0111011 1011101 10001101 1001101 110100010 10110101 01001110 10101011 1001101 10111011 1101111 11011110 1111101000 11001110 11000111 1110010 1101110 11010110 0010011010 0111001 010011010 0111011 10101000 1111011 1111111 110011010 101001001 011010010 1011011 1101111 10111001 1101111 11010110 11001011 010010011 111001 1001001 0100101 0111001 101001110 1001001 01110111 1001001 0010010010 1010010010 101011110 110010010 1011001 10100010010 001101001 101001101 001000100 1011101 11110010 001101 11101110 1010101 01111110 11011010 101110010 11011110 111011 111010010 011001001 1011101 0101001 101001 10010110 1001001 11011010 1101001 1001001 1001001 100111011 110011100 0101111 1010110110 101011011 101011011 111001001 11001001 111111010 1011101 1110110110 1101011 10110000011 101101001 001001101 1010010010 101101101 11011010 1001001 101011010 01001011 11001001 11011010 111101100 11010010 001011011 1011101 101111111 1011111 110110100 1001001 11101010 0101101 1001001 111011 11011111 1010110110 100111011 0110011010 010001101 011001101 1111011 110111011 10010110 111101 11010010 001001001 1101001 0111111 1011001 1001110 1111101 11001010 01110010 1110111 0101011 01001101 10100100010 110101 11110110 1111001 10011 1001001 10110111 10111010 111001 011010010 011101101 01001101 01011001 11001001 111011010 11001101 10011110 11110111 1111011 1001011 1001001 10110110 1011101 11110110 101001 001111011 110111 101111101 11011010 1101101 110110101 1101011 1001001 111001001 111011011 1010111101 11011110 1111110 1001011 111111111 1001001 1001001 1111010010 111101001 00100100101 1101101 1001001 1001001 1101101 10100101101 1101011 11110110 1011011 1101111 111010110 1011111 111010110 1010110010 11110110 1111011 1001001 1111001 10001001 100101010 1001111 100100100 1001001 1001001 101111 1101111 11111100 1001101 11110110 1111011 1101101 1011011 1001011 10010010 1001001 010011010 11001001 1011111 1011011 1001101 1010010010 101001001 11110110 1111001 101011 1110101 111011 11110110 1111001 10110110 1011011 1001001 1011011 1011101 1111010010 111110001 101111100 0111011 1110111100 10110110100 100110100 10100111100 1011111 101101110 1011011 1011011 11000101 11010101 1101010110 1010101001 111100101 1001101 101101101 101011001 101101111 100111101 1001101 10010011 1001101 101001000 010001001 1001011 110010010 01001001
- Amount of stanzas: 46
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 322
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, in, and, us, her, of, over, his, not, to, ye, your, for, only are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words surely, and, we, woe, is, the, whose, who, over, with, in, none, gladly, yet, was, that, now, march, ye, still, hardly, gifts, she, only are repeated.
The author used the same words we, the, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases heard, lion, rome connect the lines.
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- summary of The Halt Before Rome--September 1867;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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