This is an analysis of the poem Loud Shout The Flaming Tongues Of War that begins with:

TA'N SIONAC AR SRAIDIB AG FAIRE GO CAOCRAC
Loud shout the flaming tongues of war....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddeefXaa eebbggaahhiiffiibb eeffddaaiiffjjee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,18,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011110 11010101 01010101 110010111 11010101 10011111 01011101 01111101 011100101 11011101 010101011 1111101 11110100 11011101 11011111 01011101 11011101 01011101 01010100 01111101 11011101 01111101 11011101 11111111 01010101 11011111 11110100 11010001 11111111 11010101 01110111 11011111 01010111 01010101 110011101 11110111 110111001 11011111 11011111 01010111 00010101 11010111 11110100 11111101 01011101 11011011 11111011 11010111 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 436
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

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