This is an analysis of the poem Nectar And Blood that begins with:
If I should worship at thine ancient shrine,
Where thy good sons, incensed by love of war, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbbcbcddeeddeeXafXXfadffddffdcfdfcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 1101111101 1101110001 0111011011 1101011101 0101010111 0101011101 1001101101 1111110111 1011011101 1101011111 1001010101 1111011111 1101110101 1111010101 1101111011 1 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1111011111 1101001101 1100011011 1100110111 1101110101 1111010110 1111010110 1101101101 10011000101 1011111001 1111000101 1011111101 01001010101 0101100101 0101111101 1101010101 1101110101 1111011110 1101010111 110001011 1 1111110001 01010110011 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1869
- Average number of words per stanza: 350
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, love, let, i, for, of, though are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, how, why, though are repeated.
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