This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of Life that begins with:
THERE are countless fields the green earth o'er,
Where the verdant turf has been dyed with gore;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccddeeff ggggXb hhaXcdiiffhhgghheeggaX jjgXkXggggeeaadXllXkmmggbbddaaggggggaajjmmddaa ddiigXaabbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,22,46,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110101110 1010110101 101101101 0010110101 111111101 111100101 10100101101 101001000101 10101001001 1100101101 10101001001 01101001001 0101110101 0010110101 110100101 11110111 010110111 0100100101 111001111001 10101110111 11101001010 01111101110 111110101 0010100111 010101101 00101001001 101011001001 110100101 0100101111 101100101 111111101 11111111011 1001100101 0010110101 100100101 11111101 101100101 0010110101 1110100111 10111101110 11101100100 110111111 110111111 111001010110 0111010111 011001011101 0010111111 101100101 01101111 1101011001 110100101 0101010101 10011101 10100101 100100101 1001001100 11101111 111101101 010010111 1111010101 11100101 1010101111 11110111 110101111 10100101 100111101 10100101 1100100101 11010001001 0101111101 1110111111 00101101001 11011101 0100100111 0101101111 1110001101 111110101 010010111 101011001101 1010100101 1010111011 1101100101 010101100 010100101 110100101 110100101 0100100101 11100101 1110111101 1110100101 1010101101 111101111 101001011001 11101100101 1111111101 0010100101 10100101 1010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 824
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, his, and, he, or, must, thou, her, with, has, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, he, and, no, as, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Battle Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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