This is an analysis of the poem Why We Fight that begins with:
This is the thing we fight:
A cry of terror in the night;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabab ccdede ffebXbXddbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000111 01010001 01110101 010000111 01010101 11100101 01011101 01011101 11010101 1101101 01011101 11011111 110111011 11010101 01010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 10111111 01110101 11010111 010100101 11110101 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
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