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

He's lost his old fire, his courage.
Now his tired, almost decrepit body...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXbXaXcbbbca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110110010 10101101010 00010110100111 011001101101 011100101 100100101 1001001010100 1010101011 0100101011001 1011000101101 1111010111001101011 1110110001011011 011011100100 1101011111 1100101000101 101001011001000101011 110100110111010 101001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 911
  • Average number of words per stanza: 160
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of are repeated.

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