This is an analysis of the poem The Peaceful Warriors that begins with:
Let others sing their songs of war
And chant their hymns of splendid death, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdXdD aeXeXdXdD cdXddfdd cfXfXdadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110001 11011101 01111111 01010001 11010101 11001101 011101001 01001101 01110101 11010101 11010100 01110101 01010001 11110101 01110111 01111111 11111101 11110101 11110111 01011101 01010001 11010001 110010111 01110101 110010111 01111111 11010101 11111101 11010101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 35
- 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; of, and, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word trade at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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