This is an analysis of the poem Our Conquering Swords that begins with:
Our conquering swords shall marshall us the way
We use to march upon the slaughter'd foe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXcXcabXbbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001110101 1101010101 1011001101 11011011001 1101010101 1101110100 1010011111 11110010011 1001010001 0111011101 1111010101 1111110101 1100010101 1001011111 1111010111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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