This is an analysis of the poem Enquiry After Peace that begins with:
PEACE! where art thou to be found?
Where, in all the spacious Round, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddee ccaafffggeehhfXaaffffffffbXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001 1010101 1111001 1111101 1110111 0100101001 1010101 1111101 101011 1011101 1110101 1110101 1011101 1110111 1110111 10110101 1110101 1110101 1010101 100011001 1011111 1010101 1001101 0110101 11001101 1011101 10101100 1010011 1010101 1011101 11011101 1010101 11001101 1110101 1010101 1111111 1110111 1010110 0101110 100101 1100000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be, where, from, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, fain are repeated.
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