This is an analysis of the poem Averted Violence that begins with:
Stripped to the buff they circled round,
And jagged and swung and crossed;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc bbbbbb dbdbXX efefbX aaaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 111111 01001111 110101 11010101 11111101 10110111 011111 11010111 010111 11110101 01111101 01010111 011101 01011101 1111011 11111011 100110010 10110101 110101 11111111 1101001 11010001 01111101 11110111 110101 01011011 010101 11011001 11110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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