This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Sword that begins with:
This is the Song of the Sword,
A proud and a ringing song,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaXA XcXcaaaa XdXdccXa XXXbaaXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0001001 0110101 0100101 11100111 1110111 10100101 0110010001 101 0101011 10111101 11111101 1110101 11111011 11110101 10100111 001 1100101 0011001 0100101 00111001 1101111 1110101 1010111 101 1101001 0110100 1110111 01000101 111101001 00100111 0110010001 101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; song, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sword at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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