This is an analysis of the poem The Allies that begins with:
August 14th, 1914
Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcda ce bf g hehX cf i eXdi Xg e jc ee ihXb Xa chcjXeh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,2,2,1,4,2,1,4,2,1,2,2,4,2,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011 000101010110101001 01101010111101 00100010111100101 11101011011001 0111101010101 0001011011010101 01 10010101011000101001 10101 00100010010 011011101111010 1011101001101010100 1110010100010111 111111100101111 01110101111011100 010001 011001100010 11101010110110010 101111101011001 01001101111011 111001101 101010100111011000 11000101110 010010011001 111010111100100 110101 10011011010100010101 111111 101011010101111 101101100100111 01100101010111010 10101 1111101010110 0101 11101010101101 01010111001011101 1010011001110111 0010100 0001010101010111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, his, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, he are repeated.
The author used the same words his, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase men connects the lines.
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- summary of The Allies;
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