This is an analysis of the poem On To Victory that begins with:

Children of the glorious dead,
Who for freedom fought and bled,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcccX aaabddde fffggggg hhheaaae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001001 1110111 00101011 10100 1111001 1111101 1110001 11111 1010101 1110101 1111111 11100 00110010 11111110 10101010 101001 11100101 10101001 1010101 10101 1111111 1010101 1110111 00101 1011101 1010101 00101001 11101 1011101 1011101 11001001 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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