This is an analysis of the poem A Battle Prayer that begins with:
God of battles, be with us now:
Guard our sons from the lead of shame,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100011 11100101 11110101 10100101 10100111 00110111 0010101101 1111101 10101111 0010110101 010101111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word god at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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