The Eve Of Battle by Cicely Fox Smith: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Eve Of Battle that begins with:

We're a score of men together
To drink to the days of yore,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcbbbda efcfXghg ihdhciei AgagdgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 0100101 00101110 101101 10101011 1010101 11111010 0100110 001111110 0010111 001011010 00100101 0011011010 101101 11101010 111111 01001010 1100101 001001010 10011111 101001010 1100111 001101110 00110101 10101010 111111 11111010 100111101 11001010 1010101 1010110101 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; to, here's are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, we're, here's are repeated.

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