This is an analysis of the poem Episode 40 that begins with:
THAT battle-toil bade he at burg to announce,
at the fort on the cliff, where, full of sorrow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefgeXgcghXggaeXicfgjXbhaXXjgXbXXXggXdkgXbgifkdcgig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111001 10110111010 1010111 10100101 111111101 110101011 001011101 010110101 10010100101 01110101 10101110101 10110111001 01111101 101010101 010111010 1011101 010110101 110010111 1011111111 1100111100 0101101001 01010101 1110101001 1100100101 1101001001 101101101000 1010101010 110100111 1111101101 01001011110 110110111 01011101 110011101 10100111 1010110111 010101110 101110010 1011011001 0111110101 0011011001 100101100 11100111011 1011111 0100100101 00110111111 0101101110 011101111 100100111 11100101 1100101101 0101111001 1110101001 100100101 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1102
- Average number of words per stanza: 202
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some are repeated.
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