This is an analysis of the poem Death In Battle that begins with:
Open the gates for me,
Open the gates of the peaceful castle, rosy in the West,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abb A caac Xbb c cXXc acca daad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,4,3,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111 100100101010001 00111010100111 100111 101110 1101101100101 101101010100101 1111 101010 01110011101011 1011110101010101 1101 1001001 01001001010110110 00101010001001 0101 1111 0101010011101111 00010010110111 1111 11001 01010010101101 1001010100101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; open, gates, and, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words open, in are repeated.
The author used the same word open at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone is repeated).
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