This is an analysis of the poem The Flight Of Peace that begins with:

TRUST and Treachery, Wisdom, Folly,
Madness, Mirth and Melancholy,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gggg ccffaacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001010 10111010 11101110 11101110 10101110 11101010 10101010 10100110 00101010 10101010 11101010 10111010 01101110 10101010 11101010 10111010 10111110 10101010 10101010 10011110 10101010 00101010 101110 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Flight Of Peace;
  • central theme;
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