This is an analysis of the poem Eighteen Hundred And Eleven that begins with:

Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar,
O'er the vext nations pours the storm of war:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccdd eeffgghhddii iiiiccjj kkjjjjii jjaaeehhii aajjddbbiibb Xabbjj iikkbbiiaaggjjffjjbbhhlliikkXfggaajjmm ddccXfkk jjffffddjjgghh jjnniiaaiihhiiddggjjooaappaXbb hhiibbjjhXiibbkkiidd iikkXlggbb iiccnn hhggaiiiiXikk bbaajcddbb lliiXXjjjj ggaajjXbiibbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,8,8,10,12,6,38,8,14,30,20,10,6,13,10,10,16,18,46,31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10111100001 10011010101 0011110101 10111100111 1011010101 1111011101 01010010101 1111010001 1011010101 1011011101 1001010111 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010001 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010111 111100110001 1001010101 01011101001 1101010101 0101010101 1001110101 11010111001 0100010101 1011010101 1011011111 1101010001 11001011111 0101010101 1011010101 0101001101 1101110101 1101100101 1111010111 1101011011 1011001101 1111011111 0101110101 11011001011 1111001101 1111011101 11000101101 1101010111 1010111101 101100010001 1111110101 1101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1111110101 01010000101 11111101010 0101010111 11011100111 1001001101 1101010101 11010100101 11110101001 11001110101 1100110101 100101110101 0111010111 0101011101 1101110111 1101010101 1101010101 1011000101 1011010111 1111010111 0101011111 10110101001 1111010001 10101011101 1001010001 1111011101 11110011101 0101010101 1101001111 1111101101 11011010111 1101011111 0101010111 1101010101 1101100101 010111000101 11010100110 1001000101 010110100111 0101010001 1001110101 1111011101 1101000101 1101010111 111011100101 1010010101 1101001101 01010101011 1101010111 1101000101 01011010110 0101010101 11101010111 1101110101 1101010100 101010010101 11010111101 1111010101 1100011101 1101011101 0111110101 1101011101 1101011101 11001011101 1001010101 10110101001 1111010001 1101011101 1110100111010 01010001001 0101110011 00110101001 0101010101 1101010101 11010101001 01000101001 0101111101 0111110101 0101010101 1111110101 1111110101 1111000101 0111010101 11010110101 1001110101 1101010101 0001010101 11011010101 11001100101 0101010101 1100011101 1101010101 01001110111 110010101111 1101111101 1111011110 1011010111 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 01010111001 0101010101 1011010001 1101111101 1101011101 1111100101 11010010101 1101010111 11110100101 1101110001 10110101001 1101111001 10110010111 01010100111 1111010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111010101 01010101001 0101000101 1100111101 1101110101 1111100101 1101011101 1110111101 0101011101 01001010101 1101110101 0111001101 1101111101 010011101001 1111010101 1101000101 1101011101 1111011101 01010010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101 110101 1101010101 1111010101 1001010101 11111101100 1101010001 1011010101 1111001101 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 11001101101 11010011111 010100110101 1111010101 0111010101 1101010101 1111010001 11010100101 1001100101 1011010101 1101011111 100110101100 1101010101100 11110101010 11011101010 01001010111 0101010101 0101010101 11010111001 10010101001 11010111001 11010110101 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010101 1100011001 11001010101 0101000111 010110001001 1101011101 11001011101 1101010101 101010101001 1011110101 0101010101 1101010101 01010001101 110011010101 100101101010 0101100101 01010101010 11010001010 1111110101 010100101001 01010101001 1111110101 11010101110 0101011001 1011010001 10101010101 1111010101 1111010101 110010010101 1001110101 1101110101 110111101 1001010101 11110101001 10101111001 1001010011 1101110101 1101001101 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 0111010101 0011001101 1101000101 1101010101 111110101 0101110101 01001011101 1110010101 1101010101 0101001101 1110010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010111 11010100101 01010101001 01001110110 1111011101 1011110101 1101010101 0101000101 10101110101 1101011101 1111110101 1001110101 0101010101 1001010101 1101011101 11001101101 1001001101 1011100101 1101010101 11010011001 010011110101 1111010111 10110111001 1111110101 10111110101 1101000101 01010101001 1101010101 1101010001 11101110101 1101110101 1100010101 10001010101 10111101011 1011110101 1101010101 1001011101 1001010101 1111010101 1001010101 1111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 681
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 335
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, with, her, thy, and, that, of, to, where, here, his, he, then, now are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, thine, thy, with, where, here, then, now, on are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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