This is an analysis of the poem A Declaration Of War that begins with:
This is the yarn that M'Larty told by the brazier fire,
Where over the mud-filled trenches the star-shells blaze and expire -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aba cXX ddX bbX ddX eeX ccX ffX eeX ddX bbX ccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000111011010010 110011100111101 0111101111111010 110011100100001 1111001001101010 11111011011111101 1111011101111111 11110111111101101 11111011011101011 1110110101010101 10101001010101101 1110111111111101 1111011011110111 1111001111101101 1111100100100101 111100111111001 111110110101011001 101111111011011 1111011110101101 10111001111101001 1110100101101010 11110101010101101 110100101101101 01101001011111010 110101111100111 11111111010100100 111010111111001 11100101100111 110010011111011 1110001011101001 111110011111101 11010010111101001 11111011100101001 11110101110101011 11110100101101111 1110100101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, him, and, in, my, while, he, me, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same words ', '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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