This is an analysis of the poem The Fight Worth While that begins with:
fight worth while on this good old earth
Isn't the fight for a hoard of gold I...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcd bcbcXefe bgbghebe fifijbjh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110011 0001101011 0000100111 01111101 0000110101 10101010101 1010100101 1010101111 011100100 010110101 011101101 0010010101 010101100 000111101 010110101 0110111101 00011101 010110100 011101101 0100101101 00100100100 1101100101 0010101100 110101001 011100101 0101010101 010101111 011101101 011111101 110100100 11110100101 0010010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; fight, for, and, to, your, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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