This is an analysis of the poem Hail! Master Death! that begins with:
When conquerors lift the bloody shield,
Showing the fallen's ooze of life, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cecefdfd ccccadad gcgchdhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 10010101 11010101 11000111 10110111 11011111 11110111 11110101 01010111 11010001 11010001 01010111 01110101 010011111 01111101 11110101 10110111 01110011 01010111 01010111 11000111 10111101 100100101 11110101 11110101 011011101 11010101 11000101 1111111 01011011 11110101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word these at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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