This is an analysis of the poem A Personal View Of War that begins with:
I NEVER pondered much on war,
Except to think it was inspiring ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdee fbfbghghee bbbXigigee jbjbakakee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 0101010100 01010101 0101110100 01111101 010111010 01110111 111101110 10010111 10111101 11110101 110101010 1010101 110101010 01000111 011101010 01110101 010101010 11011111 10111111 10110101 111100010 11010101 110111010 11111101 110011010 11010111 010110010 11010101 11110101 11011111 110101010 11111101 110100110 11110111 110101000 01011101 110001000 11110101 010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, in, no, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, no are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word go at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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