This is an analysis of the poem Comfort The Women that begins with:
A Prayer in Time of War
Whence comes the rain that ceaselessly doth fall,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcefcfccfcgaea dabaabcXdhbhadgdigig iiXigcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,20,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101 1101110011 1101010101 0001010001 1101011111 1101111101 1001011111 1001110101 1001111101 1101000101 1001010101 0101011111 1111010101 1011011101 0101110101 1101110111 0101000101 1111011111 1101110101 1100010101 100101111 1001011101 1111011101 1001001101 1101011011 1111110101 0101011111 1011111101 11010110101 1110010001 0101011011 1101110101 1111111111 1101011111 1101101101 1010111101 1001011111 0101011101 1111110111 1101010101 0101110101 1101001101 1011001111 1001010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, through are repeated.
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